Essays 31 - 60
In six pages this paper examines the approaches to the horror genre by directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg in this con...
In five pages this paper examines the implied genre film criticisms of Alfred Hitchcock. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...
aided in this aspect of the film by production designer Henry Bumstead, who "carried the masters color ideas out in ingenious desi...
"should be allowed to people who are considered superior human beings" (Alfred Hitchcocks "Rope"). Their definition of a "superio...
own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...
The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...
between them by the feelings they evoke in us. Walters writes that tension is one of the most important barometers of audience res...
film. More credits fall and slide into place, which foreshadows how Thornhill will later slide, nearly falling off the face of Lin...
they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...
ultimately meaningless and pointless. An audience member, however, wants to understand whats happening, and uses a film narrative ...
falling Madeleine from her apartment to a flower shop, to a Spanish mission where she visits the grave of Carlotta Valdes, and to ...
rolling down a hillside and coming ominously to rest" (Morris, 2000). Following the template set by Caligari, Lang also delves int...
This paper analyzes and reviews Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic film, North by Northwest. This two page paper has one source list...
In eight pages this paper examines the connection between realism and melodrama that existed in British cinema during this time pe...
In seven pages the heterogeneity of such British films of the period as Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 The Lady Vanishes and Zoltan Korda...
studying the film Psycho, does Norman represent a typical psychopath? First, does Hitchcocks film create an accurate repres...
This essay pertains to Hitchcock's "The Birds" and the strategies that Hitchcock used in the film that relate to the use of sound....
same lust. At times, his meddling seems to be a good thing, as when he and his nurse/masseuse Stella (Thelma Ritter) see a neighbo...
(Dirks, 2008). There is almost nothing positive about the surveillance that Chaplin describes here; it consists solely of a powerf...
an accidental meeting, as they have lunch in Guys private compartment, Bruno makes comments that reveal that he has detailed knowl...
In eight pages the changes that occurred in the horror cinematic genre between 1960 and 1996 are examined in a contrast and compar...
most common being dry mouth. Other side effects can include sleeplessness, headaches and loss of appetite, although more patients ...
Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...
lends great insight into the cinematic development of any film, especially the films of Hitchcock. In his movies, every shot has ...
thinks himself a hero. When we see the following, that illustrates the position of the narrator in this poem, we begin to see h...
a merely incidental afterthought of a wise kings domestic policy, but rather it was central to his over purpose--"as much a part o...
A paper on psychoanalyst Carl Jung and the psycho-dynamic school of psychoanalytic psychology he developed. The author outlines J...
effected face a lifetime of pain, frustration and disappointment, the impact on all levels society cannot be ignored. Significanc...
are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...
or morality/values. Freud theorizes that inherent in every newborn child is the urge to engage in sexual acts with the pare...