"Hitchcockian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2006, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Slavoj Žižek (actor):",
          "text": "What is this tree? I think it's another in the series of Hitchcockian big things, like the Mount Rushmore statues, or to take another example, like Moby Dick. This tree is not simply a natural object. It is within our mental space what in psychoanalysis is called “the thing”.",
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          "sense": "of or pertaining to Alfred Hitchcock or his works",
          "word": "ĥiĉkoka"
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          "sense": "of or pertaining to Alfred Hitchcock or his works",
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          "sense": "of or pertaining to Alfred Hitchcock or his works",
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      "word": "ĥiĉkoka"
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