Notorious<\/em> tells the story of Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) whose life is turned upside down after her father is convicted of spying for the Nazis. Alicia finds redemption, and romance, in her professional and personal relationship with Devlin (Cary Grant) \u2013 a US intelligence agent. A narrative of danger and suspense ensues as the pair tracks a Nazi mastermind.<\/p>\n This film continues our recent focus on the Gothic. Like other gothic heroines (perhaps most notably the second Mrs deWinter-Joan Fontaine- in Hitchcock\u2019s Rebecca<\/em>), Bergman\u2019s Alicia is a \u2018woman-in peril\u2019. Her role as a spy who deliberately seeks out dangerous situations complicates the issue, however.<\/p>\n Fan Magazine writer Dorothy Kilgallen further commented on the ambiguity of her amateur spy character in a piece which selected the film as Modern Screen\u2019s<\/em> \u2018Picture of the Month\u2019 in November 1946. According to Kilgallen, Hitchcock \u2018has flung the kohl-eyed Mata Hari type of adventuress into the cinematic dustbin and craftily built his melodrama around an apple-cheeked, soft-voiced, broad-shouldered clinging vine who looks as if she would rather play hockey than cops and robbers\u2019 (p. 6).\u00a0\u00a0This\u00a0signals Alicia’s\u00a0vulnerable status in an unfamiliar world.<\/p>\n You can find lots more information on Fan Magazines on the University of Kent\u2019s fabulous NoRMMA blog: http:\/\/www.normmanetwork.com\/<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n Do join us, if you can, for Bergman and Grant in one of Hitchcock\u2019s classics<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All are very welcome to join us for the first of this term’s melodrama screening and discussion sessions. This will take place on Monday the 25th of January, 5-7pm, in Jarman 7. We will be screening Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock, … Continue reading ![\"Notorious6SH\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2016\/01\/Notorious6SH.jpg\")
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