Discussion: Rebecca

After Sunday afternoon Noirvember screenings, join Northeastern professor Nathan Blake in the Education and Community Engagement Center to discuss the film, the genre, and the gender tropes it defined and defied.

About Rebecca

After the death of his first wife, Maximilian de Winter (Laurence Olivier) escapes England to spend time in Monte Carlo where he meets, quickly falls in love with, and marries a younger woman (Joan Fontaine). Upon bringing her back to his English estate of Manderley, all of his servants accept her as the head of the house, all except for the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson). What follows, in total Hitchcockian fashion, is an unparalleled power struggle ending in death and dishonor—but whose?

About Nathan Blake

Nathan Blake is a Teaching Professor in the Media and Screen Studies Program at Northeastern University. He teaches courses on film theory and analysis, genre films, American culture, and digital media. With publications on combat simulations and motion capture alongside the visual rhetoric of disabled veterans and athletes, he is currently developing work on ecocinema and the posthuman.