Patriarchy in the own family. Hitchcock's 'Shadow Of A Doubt'. Film Analysis

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 2,0, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Written English: Writing about film noir, language: English, abstract: Charles Oakley, or Uncle Charlie, visits his sister and her family in the small village of Santa Rosa, California. His niece Charlotte, or better known as Little Charlie, nicknamed after her uncle, is very happy about her uncle's attendance because she expects his appearance will add new excitement to her dull, predictable life, what he then does but not in the way in which she has wished. This essay argues that, in Hitchcock's Shadow of a doubt, as Little Charlie's suspicions about her uncle increase, Uncle Charlie becomes more and more aggressive towards her in order to hide his male insecurity, which ends in a kind of suicide.