Pecking at Rebecca Character(istics)s of Manderley as Symbolised in Hitchcock’s Hollywood Practices in Rebecca

Abstract

The current paper begins with an examination of the relationship between the producerDavid O.Selznickand the directorAlfred Hitchcock, making the case that there are parallels between their relationshipand the unnamed protagonist and other characters in Hitchcock’s first Hollywood feature, Rebecca(1940). It then explores some of the Freudian and Lacanian symbols within the film and how these can allude to character traits of the main protagonists.