[DOC] [TLE] MacGuffin - Wikipedia [PAR] In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the 
form of some ... So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all. ... 
Hitchcock's term "MacGuffin" helped him to assert that his films were in fact not 
what ... around which the plot revolves, but as to what that object specifically is, 
he declared,... [DOC] [TLE] MacGuffin | Open Access articles | Open Access journals ... [PAR] In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the ... 
The director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized the term "MacGuffin" (a 
plot device that motivates the ... So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at 
all. ... which the plot revolves, but as to what that object specifically is, he 
declared,... [DOC] [TLE] MacGuffin Feature - Bridge Guys [PAR] The term MacGuffin was coined by Mr. Angus MacPhail from Scotland, a friend of 
and ... In a whimsical anecdote told by Mr. Alfred Hitchcock, he compared the 
MacGuffin to a ... be aware that it represents the ultimately irrelevant plot element 
every listener or viewer is ... So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all. [DOC] [TLE] "Hitchcock's MacGuffin in the Works of David Mamet" by Digou, Mike ... [PAR] As a literary device, the MacGuffin predates Hitchcock. Rudyard Kipling first ... 
One man says, ... So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all. (Truffaut... [DOC] [TLE] MacGuffins and Myth  Mysteristas [PAR] Mar 23, 2016 ... Here is how he explained the term MacGuffin, according to Wikipedia: It might 
be a ... So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all. [DOC] [TLE] [stylist] MacGuffin - NFBnet [PAR] Apr 25, 2015 ... Given the definition below, why name the foundation MacGuffin, and what, if 
anything, does its name say about its purpose, mission, and future? ... producer 
Alfred Hitchcock popularized the term "MacGuffin" (a plot device that motivates 
the characters ... So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all. [DOC] [TLE] Thirty-Nine Steps to Happiness - From the Current - The Criterion ... [PAR] Jun 25, 2012 ... The first man says, But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands, and ... So 
you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all. Alfred Hitchcock to Franois 
Truffaut. The shaggy-dog story that gave Alfred Hitchcock his pet name for ... the 
first Hitchcock film to really crank up the MacGuffin as plot motor,... [DOC] [TLE] What are some movies that make use of MacGuffins? - Quora [PAR] I would say the above definition of MacGuffin is slightly off in the question. It's not 
always the ... i.e. a plot device that that has little else to do with the story except 
move the plot forward; ... So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all. ... 
It drives the plot forward and is even dubbed "the stuff that dreams are made of. [DOC] [TLE] The MacGuffin, Part Two: Why - Argh Ink [PAR] Mar 14, 2014 ... Alfred Hitchcock defined the MacGuffin as . . . the mechanical ... So for the 
purposes of this discussion, let's just say it's the thing ..... But it can still be a sort 
of plot device. .... Truffaut: 'So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all. ... 
No he reaches the Jade Key by playing through the entire plot of the... [DOC] [TLE] Relevance as MacGuffin in Mathematics Education - Dylan Wiliam [PAR] Alfred Hitchcock's metaphor of a MacGuffina plot device primarily intended to ... 
It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. ... So you 
see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all [Truffaut, 1978 #1789 ... The counter
-intelligence man replies, Let's just say that he's an importer and exporter.. [DOC] [TLE] The Hitchcock Connection: Pynchon's Play with MacGuffins in ... [PAR] Hitchcock of having nothing to say with his pointless plot device (Truffaut

Question: Hitchcock's name for a plot device; he said it "is actually nothing at all"
Answer: McGuffin