Alfred Hitchcock's Cinema Of 1950s America

As I have grounded my thesis on Hitchcock’s oeuvre within the matrix of 1950s America, the films that fall within the purview of my thesis include: Strangers on a Train (1951), Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), The Wrong Man (1956), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963). For the sake of comparison and to support my arguments I have made references to other prominent films of Hitchcock. My study also proposes to analyze how Alfred Hitchcock positions the culture of America in the 1950s in his films, how he represents the middle-class society, ideology and culture of America. It also aims to bring out how cultural studies can be applied to understand the Hitchcockian movies of the 1950s and Hitchcock’s ability to manipulate his …show more content…
Through this research my contention is that Hitchcock’s varied deployments of American culture, public spaces, cultural narratives, literary traditions, iconography and ideological cross currents are not serendipitous, accidental or