Encounter 3 - Cinema in Films

From the 1950s Hitchcock's cinema became increasingly meta-cinematic, with the focus shifting more and more towards the unravelling of formal mechanisms. In Stage Fright (1950) the principle of the narrator's omniscience is overturned. Rear Window (1954) is a multi-layered film: genre film, Hitchcock film, film about cinema and the act of watching. In To Catch a Thief (1955) the visually saturated images already tend towards abstraction.