Abstract

Auteur cinema, together with film noir, is a most challenging genre within the classic paradigm. And at the forefront of this cinema there is Alfred Hitchcock, one of the directors who has contravened the classic Hollywood rules with his works. The aim of this study is the analysis of one of those films, The Wrong Man, 1956, which Hitchcock, wading monetary hindrances, made for Warner, upon the real story of a man mistakenly identified as a thief. Thus, by means of dissecting the writing terms and procedures, both at a narrative and stylistic level, this analysis reflects on the manifestation of the Hitchcockian authorship.