Hitchcock’s_American_And_British_Suspense_Genre_And_How_They

Hitchcock’s American And British Suspense Genre And How They Reflect Social Concerns Of The Period Hitchcock’s American and British Suspense Genre And how they reflect Social Concerns of the Period Hitchcock’s British films use suspense, genre and character identification quite different from his American works. When comparing his British and American films two principal British films are The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes and two of his most significant American films are Psycho and Vertigo. These films have strong ties to the country in which they were produced and display different characteristics that make them specifically British or American. In Hitchcock’s American suspense films, the knowledge or the secret is revealed early in the film usually by means of restricted narration which is tied to one or two characters. The restricted narration is designed to provoke identification with the main or main characters. In Psycho the audience is drawn into the film by Marion Crane, the viewer is only allowed to view the events through her perspective until she meets Norman Bates. The narration is done in such a way that we see the world on the screen through the eyes of Marion and we are able to understand her desires as well as what motivates her to pursue them. From the beginning hitchcock’s, hitchcock, film, films, viewer, british, american, view, point, instead, character, audience, marion, information, suspense, hannay, events, scottie, norman, different, work, vertigo, steps, lady, 39, perspective, characters, vanishes, until, time, through, made, judy, concerns, being