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theorists and directors," note that "Hitchcocks films are deeply infused with anxiety, guilt, and existential angst, which they tr...
his cinematic apprenticeship working for British studios - working first as an artist, set designer and directors assistant before...
they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...
"should be allowed to people who are considered superior human beings" (Alfred Hitchcocks "Rope"). Their definition of a "superio...
film manipulates the audience at every turn, so that the audience is compelled to examine their own sympathies and perspective. ...
film. More credits fall and slide into place, which foreshadows how Thornhill will later slide, nearly falling off the face of Lin...
This essay pertains to Hitchcock's "The Birds" and the strategies that Hitchcock used in the film that relate to the use of sound....
rolling down a hillside and coming ominously to rest" (Morris, 2000). Following the template set by Caligari, Lang also delves int...
between them by the feelings they evoke in us. Walters writes that tension is one of the most important barometers of audience res...
the side of the road in the midst of miles of cornfields. It is a bright, sunny afternoon and the prairie seems benign after the c...
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 ...
Mitch, a man completely under the control of his mother. But, we really do not necessarily believe that Melanie wants this man. Sh...
the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...
In seven pages the heterogeneity of such British films of the period as Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 The Lady Vanishes and Zoltan Korda...
In five pages this paper examines how man's abuse of nature has dire consequences in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film The Birds. Four...
In thirteen pages Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 suspense masterpiece is analyzed in terms of effect, form, and function with a cinematic...
In eight pages this paper examines the connection between realism and melodrama that existed in British cinema during this time pe...
This paper analyzes and reviews Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic film, North by Northwest. This two page paper has one source list...
In six pages a cinematic analysis of director Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane focuses upon the auteur's themes of capitalis...
This research paper argues that director Quentin Tarantino has earned the perspective of being considered the auteur of his films,...
the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...
Danvers seems almost supernatural in her ability to simply appear, starling the current Mrs. De Winter, who is played by Joan Font...
the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...
Jerry and chase them through the hotel. The two hide under a table in a banquet room, only to discover that its the very room in ...
own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...
know the woman, named Madeline, he falls in love with her. However, Madeline succeeds in committing suicide and Scotty is helpless...
out Dil, Jodys girlfriend. Ironically, painfully, and even humorously, Dil is actually a man (Hooper 43). It is worth noting t...
at a blackboard writing words. As soon as he completes the "d" in the last word the tape is over. The running time for the tape is...
action shot at a car race. To rely on an old clich?, he is "bored to tears." He spends most of his convalescent time sitting at th...