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Introduction,nvisions children and childhood. Alfred Hitchcock once intoned: “Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children?”—a sentiment that quietly wafts, like a fading perfume, through many of Hitchcock’s films. Francois Truffaut’s 1961 extended interview with Alfred

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,“The Future’s Not Ours to See”: How Children and Young Adults Reflect the Anxiety of Lost Innocencegunman, Edward Drayton: “Don’t you realize that Americans dislike having their children stolen?” Earlier in the movie, Jo McKenna entertains her son and husband by singing “Que Sera Sera,” and its playfulness becomes darkly ironic when she sings “the future’s not ours to see” on the eve of her son’s

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,No Laughing Matter: Imperiling Kids and Country in Alfred Hitchcock’s , (1936), as “testicle.”. Such levity lightened a grim subject, as young Tester played a boy caught in the explosive hi-jinks of international intrigue. But the director’s teasing also hints at the film’s greater political issue. In portraying the 12-year-old Stevie,. Tester embodied the figurative crown jew

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,“If You Rip the Fronts Off Houses”: Killing Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock’s , (1943),g the killing of children. There is a notable exception to this in . (1936), one that occasioned a telling exchange between Hitchcock and Truffaut. Referring to the infamous scene in which a bus full of Londoners is killed by the explosion of a bomb carried by an unwitting young boy, Truffaut observ

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