Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films Alfred Hitchcock's films show an interesting tendency towards recurring themes and plot devices throughout his life as a director. This article lists some of the themes and plot devices that occur repeatedly in his films. There are images of birds in nearly all of Hitchcock's films. Some of the most prominent are listed below. Black people appear mostly as background characters in many of his films, except Philippe Dubois who is both intelligent and clever, The church have appeared in some of this films, Cultured villains have been shown in many of his
Carole Rosenthal Carole Rosenthal Carole Rosenthal (born 13 December 1940) is a fiction writer, the author of "It Doesn't Have To Be Me", a collection of short stories. Carole Rosenthal's fiction is published in commercial and literary magazines that range from the experimental (such as "The Cream City Review" and the Minnesota review) to the mainstream (Including "Transatlantic Review", "Other Voices", "Confrontation", Another Chicago Magazine, "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and Alfred Hitchock Magazine), to the political (Mother Jones, Ms.). Frequently anthologized (Not Somewhere Else but Here, Powers of Desire, Masterpieces of Mystery, Love Stories by New Women), her writing has also been