About midway through Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946), Madame Anne Sebastian (Leoppaline Konstantine) walks down a long staircase and walks right in front of the camera, looking off-screen-right just a bit. She introduces herself to Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman): “You resemble your father very much” (0:42:00). Alicia quickly informs Alexander Sabastian’s (Claude Rains) mother, Madame Anna, that she did not testify in her father’s hearing–her voice was supressed from the legal record. Because I have screened Notorious only twice and considering it takes me three or four times to finally comprehend the majority of a Hitchcock film, I will have to look more closely at the relationship between Alicia and her father viz a viz the law. I can just hear Susan telling me that I need to complete/develop a thought like this, but it’s late. So, I throw it out on the Kolog hoping to return one day in the near future in order to incorporate it into my dissertation. You could say I’m planning ahead to the next research stage as I seem to be making good progress regarding the books/articles/novels/films collected up to this point. I sense I’m on to something regarding this project as it seems to appeal to a variety of interests and, consequently, people. The plan I have outlined over the past few weeks has coalesced, in my opinion of course, into a respectable argument that employs a fair share of canonical and more marginal texts. I’m banking on the fact that my aims will allow me to contribute mightily to the next program in which I find myself. But again, it’s late…or should I say early?
