Hitchcockove glave: Sjever-sjeverozapad.

North by Northwest is a quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The fact that Alfred Hitchcock took that line for the title of his 1959 film meant that Hollywood was making an explicit comment on a modern world for which Hamlet was an example story – and for which America, the new world, was a presumption of self-reflexion. The comment became most unsubdued and brutal in the final sequence, with the stone faces of four American presidents carved into Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, northwest of New York, where the film begins. Even if this represents the logical determinant of this paper, it is not its focus: the focus is the frame from the 32-seconds-long Chicago part of the film, opening the well-known auction scene, in which Cary Grant, feigning madness, comes closest to Hamlet. The paper is based on the assumption that it is precisely in this frame where Hitchcock himself comes closest to Hamlet and expounds his understanding of the film as well as the specific frame theory as the basis for this understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]