Rebecca & Marnie & Feminism
Women’s Films The two films Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940) and Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964) are women’s films, as they both “highlight a woman’s difficulty (with Marnie, her failure) in negotiating the oedipal trajectory and her problematic attachment to another woman, here [in Marnie] the mother” (Jacobowitz, pg 16). Mrs. de Winter has no mother figure, so she …