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Question
Alfred Hitchcocks term MacGuffin refers to
a. a character type repeatedly used throughout his films.
b. a type of viewer who can be easily manipulated through specific storytelling strategies.
c. an object, document, or secret that at first appears to the characters to be vitally important but that turns out to be of no real importance to the overall narrative.
d. the overall narrative.
e. the first turning point of a film.
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