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Film Quarterly (2012) - Timing and Vulnerability in Three Hitchcock Films

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This essay studies three Hitchcock films (The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Marnie (1964) and Frenzy (1972)) to argue that their character construction-especially their construction of characters' vulnerability-is structured around patterns of timing or mistiming. It also asks more broadly what this formal choice can tell us about these films' treatment of ethics.