Genre of North by Northwest, 1959, Hitchcock

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The film North by Northwest is quite appealing as it combines an extensive series of genres ranging from humor to suspense. The film includes a range of continuity editing skills that create both suspense and smoothness in it. The tale is of a blameless man Roger Thornhill, trailed across the US by agents of a strange association who want to bring to an end his intrusion in their strategy to smuggle out HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfilm" \o "Microfilm"a device containing some government secrets. This film presents suspense in almost each scene as the story of Roger Thornhill and his thrilling adventure unfolds.
Hitchcock includes a number of techniques to create smoothness in this film. He uses the idea of establishing shots at the beginning of a new scene to provide an overview. When Roger Thorn hill is kidnapped, establishing shot that provide an indication of the location he is being taken to. He a...