![]() ![]() My critical approach is a textual feminism, open to the ambiguities and silences of the film text which reveal dislocations of the supposedly unified patriarchal voice it is a critical approach which "seeks to expose, not to perpetuate, patriarchal practices" (Moi xiv). From this perspective, the film becomes a feminist text. I propose an alternative feminist reading of Shadow of a Doubt as a critique of the patriarchal ideology it represents, as a text which shows the cracks and fissures in the sexual roles born and existing in the institution of the family. This critical perspective creates a narrative allegory which projects onto a film text its own narrative assumptions: thus a film like Shadow of a Doubt is read as a patriarchal tale of a young woman's transgression, punishment, and return to the family structure (e.g., McLaughlin). ![]() Instead, many feminist critics conclude that, because his films mirror images and structures of a vicious and vengeful patriarchal system repeatedly subjecting women to male violence, the narratives close off any possibility of women escaping this oppression (e.g., McLaughlin, Mulvey, Williams). ![]() Michele Barrett, Women's Oppression Todayīecause almost every film directed by Alfred Hitchcock depicts encounters between men and women which reflect the values of a patriarchal order, his films are not often claimed as feminist texts. reprinted in "Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual" - edited by Sidney Gottlieb and Christopher BrookhouseĪrticle An analysis of gender ideology in which women are always innocent, always passive victims of patriarchal power, is patently not satisfactory.keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, California, Feminist Analysis, Gender Roles, James McLaughlin, Laura Mulvey, Misogyny, Notorious (1946), Patrice Petro, Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa, California, Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Tania Modleski, The Birds (1963), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Vertigo (1958)Ĭtx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=HITCHCOCK+THE+FEMINIST%3A+REREADING+SHADOW+OF+A+DOUBT&rft.jtitle=Hitchcock+Annual&rft.au=Thomas+Hemmeter&rft.date=&rft.issn=1062-5518&rft.spage=12&rft.externalDBID=HTAN&rft.externalDocID=1481963871 Links. ![]() journal: Hitchcock Annual (01/Jul/1993).article: Hitchcock the feminist: Rereading Shadow of a Doubt. ![]()
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