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MacGuffin: a standalone construct

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Film studies

the object or secret that the characters pursue and that sets the plot going, while mattering little to the audience.

In film studies, MacGuffin refers to the object or secret that the characters pursue and that sets the plot going, while mattering little to the audience. This meaning comes from Truffaut (1966/1967) in Hitchcock.[1]

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audience3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs film1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct object4 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Truffaut, F. (1967). Hitchcock (with the collaboration of H. G. Scott). Simon and Schuster. (Original work published 1966) ISBN 9780671314309

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