希区柯克式轻推, 欺骗美学, 谬误,

悬念, 凝视

This article considers Alfred Hitchcock’s work in

relation to the connotations of ‘fallacy’ within conventional

settings of modern Western society. Focusing on two films,

Strangers on a Train (1951) and Rear Window (1954), we point

to the phenomenon of the incidental push that leads toward an

inextricable entanglement of characters, events, and psychic

forces in what appear to be logical courses of action. We name

this push ‘the Hitchcockian nudge’.

Hitchcockian nudge, aesthetics of deception;

fallacy, suspense, gaze