Clues (2013) - Hitchcock's Diegetic Imagination: Thornton Wilder, Shadow of a Doubt, and Hitchcock's Mise-en-Scène

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• article: Hitchcock's Diegetic Imagination: Thornton Wilder, Shadow of a Doubt, and Hitchcock's Mise-en-Scène
• author(s): Donna Kornhaber
• journal: Clues (01/Apr/2013)
• issue: volume 31, issue 1, page 67
• journal ISSN: 0742-4248
• publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc
• keywords: Collaboration, Dramatists, Film adaptations, Motion picture directors & producers, Motion pictures, Theater

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Abstract

The author considers the collaboration between Thornton Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock on Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and examines the influence of Wilder's theories of theatrical abstraction and cinematic realism on Hitchcock's developing sense of mise-en-scene. Wilder helped Hitchcock employ mise-en-scene as a vital tool of suspense, thus producing a thriller that turned as much on details of properties and setting as on narrative or visual devices. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]