Journal of Film and Video (1996) - Hitchcock's Melodramatic Silence

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• article: Hitchcock's Melodramatic Silence
• author(s): Thomas Hemmeter
• journal: Journal of Film and Video (01/Apr/1996)
• issue: volume 48, issue 1/2, pages 32-40
• journal ISSN: 0742-4671
• publisher: University of Illinois Press
• keywords: "The Silent Scream: Alfred Hitchcock's Sound Track" - by Elisabeth Weis, Alfred Hitchcock, Auteurism, Claude Chabrol, Elisabeth Weis, Film Production Specialists, Frenzy (1972), Jessica Tandy, John Belton, John Fell, New York City, New York, North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), Robert Walker, Rope (1948), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Spellbound (1945), Stanley Cavell, The 39 Steps (1935), The Birds (1963), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The Wrong Man (1956), Thomas Hemmeter, Vertigo (1958), William Rothman, Young and Innocent (1937), Éric Rohmer

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Abstract

Argues that the filmwork of Alfred Hitchcock shows his manipulation of melodramatic silence in that his films demonstrate a link between silence and truth. Concludes that in the simultaneous longing for and denial of the power of film silence lies the modernist complexity of Hitchcock's films that suggests the uses of melodramatic language in a postmelodramatic world. (PA)