Thank you, Ken, for once again making clear and helpful points! I'd
only add that the woman in "Murder!" is also a vehicle for Hitchcock's
satire on "the new thought" and other such folderol that flourished
around the turn of the last century. But the other postings are indeed
off target. The point isn't whether Freud was correct about this or
that -- it's what aspects of, and to what degree, psychoanalytic theory
played a part in the intellectual underpinnings of his work, and how
Hitchcock's uses of Freiud position him vis-a-vis one of the three or
four most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, agree with psa
or not. As for the slap at the great, ever-inspiring Melies, read Tom
Gunning on the cinema of attractions, or Antonia Lant on haptic cinema,
or Terry Gilliam on Melies as a living influence on his work,
or.........
David Sterritt, PhD
Chairman, National Society of Film Critics
Professor Emeritus of Theater and Film
Long Island University
Programming Associate
Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y
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