Some Visual Thoughts About Perception in 'Rebecca'

Ricardo Vieira Lisboa

doi:10.34632/jsta.2020.9410

Ricardo Vieira Lisboa

Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira - Fundação de Serralves

Abstract

Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca is part of the series of 1940s gothic films. In this essay, one of the most common tropes of this subgenre of the psychological thriller is identified and analysed: perceptual ambiguity. Based on this element, I justify the formal choices of an (audio)visual essay - "Some Visual Thought about Perception in Rebecca" - made with images and sound from that film, which explores the gothic dimensions of the video-essayistic practice itself: research, contradiction, quotation and evocation.

Keywords: Gothic film, Audiovisual essay, Alfred Hitchcock, Visual perception

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Guest editors: Daniel Ribas, Nuno Crespo, and Carlos Sena Caires

In the past decades, the field of cinema has undergone several transformations. The digital turn increasingly called for new forms of production, distribution, and exhibition, which imply different ways of thinking, doing, and experimenting cinema. These new forms also reduced the gap between cinema to other so-called visual arts. If cinema and visual arts were already in the process of merging, the last years forced the naturalization of thinking in similar theoretical grounds. This special issue aims to be a forum for the discussion of new practices of researching cinema, and the changes in cinema’s forms of experience and production.

DOI https://doi.org/10.34632/jsta.2020.12.2

Published 2020-07-31

DOI https://doi.org/10.34632/jsta.2020.9410

Published 2020-07-24

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Lisboa, R. (2020). Some Visual Thoughts About Perception in ’Rebecca’. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 12(2), 124-137. https://doi.org/10.34632/jsta.2020.9410

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Vol 12 No 2 (2020): On Cinema

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Audiovisual Essays

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