Shadows and Secrets: The Gothic Heroine on Film traces the evolution of women at the center of classic gothic cinema, from romantic obsession and peril to resistance and survival.
Set in shadowed houses and windswept landscapes, these four films explore how love, power, and secrecy intertwine -- and how women learn to see through the stories meant to confine them.
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March 24: Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of haunted atmosphere follows a young woman (Joan Fontaine) who marries a fascinating widower, Max De Winter (Laurence Olivier). Soon, she realizes that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier.
The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, while also dealing with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson), the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the new mistress of the house.
"[Hitchcock] has succeeded brilliantly In his initial Hollywood venture. In his Individual fashion, he has re-told in his own creepy, colorful way Miss du Maurier's forbidding, fascinating story of life and death, malignancy and murder." —Mildred Martin, Philadelphia Inquirer
"I didn't think they could do it! Capture the suspense, the horror, the beauty, and the strange eeriness of Rebecca, the book. But they have!" —Mae Tinee, Chicago Tribune
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, George Sanders
United States | English | 1940 | Psychological Thriller | 130 minutes | Approved
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