Clues (2013) - Melancholy Elephants: Hitchcock and Ingenious Adaptation

Details

• article: Melancholy Elephants: Hitchcock and Ingenious Adaptation
• author(s): Ken Mogg
• journal: Clues (01/Apr/2013)
• issue: volume 31, issue 1, page 13
• journal ISSN: 0742-4248
• publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc
• keywords: Film adaptations, Motion pictures, Novels

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Notes

• reprinted in "Hitchcock and Adaptation: On the Page and Screen" - edited by Mark Osteen (2014)

Abstract

Alfred Hitchcock films such as Marnie and Young and Innocent represent a world that is equivocal. Highly ingenious and imaginative, they enable the spectator, much like the character Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest, to re-engage with that world and come "alive."