What Makes Alfred Hitchcock Voyeurism

Hitchcock had many other technical devices that he used in order to grab the viewers’ attention, such as having the audience as a voyeur and the MacGuffin. Hitchcock used voyeurism to blur the lines between the innocent and the guilty, as well to put the audience in a position in which they become personally engaged with the characters of the film. Having the audience as a voyeur, was able to put the viewers in the film as a sense just watching a movie. The viewers were in a way transplanted in the movie to where they felt like they were actually there witnessing all what was going down in the film. In, Rebecca, there is the opening scene of when Joan Fontaine’s character starts talking about the mansion Manderley and takes us down memory …show more content…
Her character lets us also go back to her days in Manderley. The next device Hitchcock uses is the use of a MacGuffin. A MacGuffin is a detail which, by inciting curiosity and desire, drives the plot and motivates the actions of characters within the story. However, the specific identity of the item is actually unimportant to the plot. In relations to Rebecca, the late first Mrs. De Winters was the MacGuffin, because first we never see Rebecca, not even a photo is shown. Even though the viewers and not the 2nd De Winters never seen Rebecca, does not matter because she has still had this power over everybody that lives in Manderley even though she is never seen. Having a MacGuffin is able to let the viewers know that even though Rebecca is never seen does not mean she is just this forgotten women that no one notices, because everybody notices by the fact that all of Rebecca’s things were still in the mansion was kind of like she was there; everybody was constantly reminded of her without even having a photo luring