A person · 1899–1980 · Modern
Alfred Hitchcock
Director who said he made films about the tension between a man and the thing he cannot have.
Stated the thesis of this whole site, in his own words, before the word parasocial existed.
Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.
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1800 1800-1899 · 1899 1899
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- needs-sourceStatements in interview about suspense being the withholding of information, and about Vertigo's protagonist.Hitchcock on Hitchcock, ed. François Truffaut, 1966 - the Vertigo chapter covers this directly.
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Vertigowrote · 1958 · A workThe audienceof the same time as · 1600 · A mechanism or tacticVertigodepicts · 1958 · A work
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