Michigan is officially the holder of the Macguffin, a fictional award that has a history as long as the sport of college ...

Is it important to the story? Yes! Does the audience need to care about it? No! That’s a MacGuffin! This month we’re celebrating one of film’s great narrative devices — coined by ...

The term "MacGuffin" was coined by Angus MacPhail, an English screenwriter who often worked with Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock himself is often associated with the term, as he used the term often ...