Framing the Absence and Presence of Rebecca: Female Subjectivity and Voyeurism On and Off-Screen in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca

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Viktória Osoliová

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In this paper, I endeavour to explore how Alfred Hitchcock adapted in his first American feature film Daphne du Maurier’s famous novel, Rebecca from page to silver screen. After providing a film historical overview of the genre of women’s film of the 1930s and ‘40s and of cinematic appropriations of the gothic romance genre, I study the role of the look and the gaze, female subjectivity, and the trope of the gothic house in Hitchcock’s romantic psychological thriller film. I argue that Hitchcock’s special camera techniques reach uncanny effects by visualising the absent presence of the ghastly titular character.

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Osoliová, Viktória. 2021. “Framing the Absence and Presence of Rebecca: Female Subjectivity and Voyeurism On and Off-Screen in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca”. AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 17 (1). https://iskolakultura.hu/index.php/americanaejournal/article/view/45466.
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Viktória Osoliová

Viktória Osoliová obtained her MA in English Studies at the institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, and is currently a PhD candidate in Literary Studies at University of Szeged. Her research interests include Gothic and 19th century English literature. Her doctoral research focuses on women and space in Gothic narratives. Email: viktoria.osoli@gmail.com