Hitchcock themes and motifs - mirrors
"There is so little I know. It is as though I were walking down a long corridor that once was mirrored, and fragments of mirror still hang there, dark and shadowy, reflecting a dark image of me... and yet not me... someone else, in other clothes, of another time, doing things I have never done... but still me... And I can't stop to ask why, I must keep on walking. At the and of the corridor there is nothing but darkness, and I know when I walk into the darkness, I'll die." — Madeleine Elster[1]
Downhill (1927)
Easy Virtue (1928)
Champagne (1928)
Blackmail (1929)
Rich and Strange (1931)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)
Stage Fright (1950)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Frenzy (1972)
Articles
- CineAction (1999) - The Use of Glass in Alfred Hitchcock's "Blackmail"
- Bright Lights Film Journal (2000) — Here's Lookin' at You, Kid! Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho