The Dweller on the Threshold: Whiteness, the Family and the End of Classical Cinema

Through a discussion of two key American films of the 1940s and 1950s – Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and John Ford's The Searchers (1956) – this article situates the breakdown of classical cinema, or what Gilles Deleuze calls the “crisis of the action-image”, in relation to...

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Main Author: Conall Cash
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh University Press 2025-02-01
Series:Film-Philosophy
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Online Access:https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/film.2025.0297
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