Rebecca

Through various plot elements and filmic techniques in Alfred Hichcock’s film Rebecca, the final product is established as a fairytale. This final product, however, must first be reached by Hichcock’s use of entwining the "alternative" fairy tale of Rebecca with various other traditional fairy tales in which the viewer is positioned to mock and interpret in a desired fashion. This "fairytale" element is just one of the sub-genres used to emphasize the gothic …

…their friendship. The end result of the film Rebecca surveys the traditional fairy tale conventions, where good wins over evil, mortal and the eternal meet and it conveys the message to the 1940’s housewife audience that the "good" and naïve woman (Fontaine) will be victorious over the "bad" sexual woman (Rebecca). This fairy tale of Rebecca is made up of various other fairy tales molded together to produce the end result of the film.