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Who can omit Dorothy's quest for the good and strong oz. as she attempted to come back to her loved Kansas? She suggestion she wanted a wizard's magic, purely to find that domestic -- and the facility to get there -- have been together with her all alongside. This enticing and provocative ebook proposes that Hollywood has created an imaginary cinematic geography packed with humans and locations we realize and to which we're irresistibly drawn. every one viewing of a movie stirs, in a really genuine and charismatic approach, emotions of domestic, and the relief of returning to movies like commonplace haunts is on the center of our nostalgic hope. top us on a trip via American movie, Elisabeth Bronfen examines the several methods house is built within the improvement of cinematic narrative. every one bankruptcy incorporates a shut analyzing of such vintage motion pictures as Fleming's The Wizard of Oz, Sirk's Imitation of Life, Burton's Batman Returns, Hitchcock's Rebecca, Ford's The Searchers, and Sayles's Lone Star.
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Although Hitchcock insisted in a statement to Newsweek, once the production of Rebecca was over, that “his first film would reflect no personality other than his own,” Leonard J. 6 The film itself, in turn, plays through this confrontation with the big Other as a battle between “I” and the first Mrs. de Winter, whose stringent authority is maintained through her devoted servant Mrs. Danvers. Hitchcock, of course, never admitted to an identification between himself and his filmic “I,” although he does confess in his conversations with Truffaut that he insisted on casting Joan Fontaine in his first American films because she, like him, was a stranger in Hollywood.
In radiant sunlight Maxim drives through the iron gates of his estate and proceeds along the winding path that leads through an enormous park and up to the mansion. The heroine is clearly nervous, unsure what to expect of her new home, and even Maxim’s soothing reassurance that she need not be frightened or worried about anything, since Danvers has everything under control, does not alleviate her anxiety. Suddenly it begins to rain, and to protect his young bride Maxim covers her head with a raincoat that had been lying on the backseat.
Confronting “I” with her forbidden wishes, Danvers tells her that she has known all along that she wanted to see this room, and, after drawing apart the second curtain, she proceeds to show her Rebecca’s intimate possessions, which she has preserved as relics and placed on display. Within the walls of bronfen_ch01 7/23/04 [42] 10:30 AM Page 42 Uncanny Appropriations this room, in which nothing has been changed since the night of the accident, these objects attest that though Rebecca’s body is dead, her spirit remains alive and present here forever.