Wilson Taylor is a teacher and writer interested in modern and contemporary literature and film. His criticism appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere, and he occasionally tweets @wilsonltaylor. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island. 
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“The Shadow and the Ghost”: The Spirit of Hitchcock and Rebecca’s Suspicions of Succession
In transposing Rebecca, notice how Hitchcock’s camera attends to shadows – bisecting faces and bruising frames – to approximate du Maurier’s disorienting syntax and looming dread. Or watch as his[…]
