Paper by Christopher Anderson. Alfred Hitchcock as an auteur has certainly demonstrated “technical competence,” “recurrent characteristics of style” or “signature” and “interior meaning” in his films (Sarris, 516-517). Indeed, his narrative even becomes predictable, or at least is similar in three of his films: The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, 1938), The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963) and Rear … Continue reading Hitchcock Nods to Feminism but Stops Short