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The Triptych and the Screenplays
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This chapter establishes three of Alfred Hitchcock's films—Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), and Marnie (1964)—as the focal points of this study. At the same time the chapter explores his professional relationships with the three screenwriters who had worked on these films (Joseph Stefano, Evan Hunter, and Jay Presson Allen), and the historical and cultural contexts in which these writers worked and within which these films are situated. These films thus constitute a “triptych”—a grouping of films illustrating a time when American culture and filmmaking were changing and the director was eager to move his films in a new direction in terms of content and technique.
Title: The Triptych and the Screenplays
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This chapter establishes three of Alfred Hitchcock's films—Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), and Marnie (1964)—as the focal points of this study.
At the same time the chapter explores his professional relationships with the three screenwriters who had worked on these films (Joseph Stefano, Evan Hunter, and Jay Presson Allen), and the historical and cultural contexts in which these writers worked and within which these films are situated.
These films thus constitute a “triptych”—a grouping of films illustrating a time when American culture and filmmaking were changing and the director was eager to move his films in a new direction in terms of content and technique.
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