It seems that the following films:
Gaslight, Laura, The Spiral Staircase, The Lady from Shanghai and Sorry, Wrong Number
Have something in common...
This isn't a conspiracy, the victims from these early thriller films are all women! It seems that women are being represented as stereotypical "helpless victims" or as being thin and pretty, which is not a real representation of all women in the world. They are shown to be innocent and wrongly accused or being "at the wrong place at the wrong time". The signifiers the film makers use are so widely recognized that they do not normally need to build a huge character description.
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
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