Sublime

‘Always make the audience suffer as much as possible’. Hitchcock was an information sadist.

Dramatic Irony: Employ Hitchcock’s favorite device and hide from the protagonist a fact known to the audience.

Pursued” (1947), the film that starred Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright,

Hitchcock knew that there is no necessary contradiction between art and popular success, nor a necessary connection between art and Art Film.

Hitchcockian protagonist,

By choosing melodrama over realism, Chabrol is able to make use of the genre's outrageous coincidences, extreme emotions, and sudden psychological reversals, giving his film the texture of a distorted, subjective experience-the