The name is absent



Appendix 3.2: Sample films - synopses and character lists
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short, cooperate in her rehabilitation. She will allow
herself to be reformed in a mould acceptable to patriarchal
order.

The preoccupation with the nature of power, knowledge,
transgression and love which runs through this film, skilfully
woven in the narrative resolution into a seamless whole can be
understood, in more general terms, as equivalent to the
opposition between matter and spirit so familiar in western
thought. This opposition is visually summarised in the film
in the recurrent images of light (spirit) and blood (matter):
the blinding light of the thunderstorm illuminates Mark's and
the audience's understanding as well as terrifying Marnie by
referring to her repressed memories of the traumatic event.
The flood of red which permeates the screen each time Marnie
retreats into a clinically traumatised state is explained in
the flashback scene at the end of the film: it is the
profusely flowing blood of the white suited sailor after the
child Marnie had beaten him over the head with the poker. It
is Mark's love which will enable Marnie to negotiate these
fundamental attributes of human consciousness - matter and
spirit - in the future, and thus to be healed. But we must
not forget that this cosmic 'truth', the dualism of matter and
spirit, is wielded in this film in the service of patriarchy:
in the end it is
because Mark wants Marnie that therefore he
is acting in her interests - he 'knows better' than she does.
What she may want is of no interest since, as we have seen,
she cannot know her own mind.

Female characters in order of appearance, character groups

1

Marnie, Margaret Edgar aka Mary Taylor, Marion

Holland__________________________________________

1

2_____

Mr Strutt's secretary

4______

3_____

Crowd at the station______________________________

4_____

4_____

Mrs Maitland, receptionist at the Red Fox Tavern

4_____

5_____

Children playing in Van Buren St. Baltimore

4_____

6_____

Jessie Cotton

3______

7_____

Bernice Edgar

2______

8

Mrs Cotton, not seen but referred to in
conversation

4

9____

Passers by outside Philadelphia station

4______

10

Office staff at Rutlands

4______

11

Susan Clayburn, secretary at Rutlands

3______

12

Miss Blakely, candidate for the job at Rutlands

4_____

13

Lil Mannering_____________________________________

3______

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