American Dream In Alfred Hitchcock's Film

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American Dream is the belief in individualism, power to change and affect the world. American dream is depicted in Hitchcock’s films through the physical style of architectural greatness itself. Thus in North by Northwest (1959), with the opening credit, image of a glassy green facade on Madison Avenue, or with Mondrianesque composition looking down from the top of the United Nations Secretariat, the view of the twilight of Vandamm’s sumptuous mountain aerie, at the top of Mount Rushmore monument are presented vividly. In The Wrong Man (1956), misted twilight towers of the great George Washington Bride, stands out as the monument to engineering and the age of steel. Vertigo (1958) is another film showing the engineering triumph of the Golden

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