Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a mystery and thriller that leaves audiences in a constant state of suspense. Rear Window opens by showing photographs of high risk environments hanging on a wall of an apartment. This leads one to believe that whoever owns the apartment lives a high risk and adventurous life. However‚ once the broken camera is shown‚ it is understood that the main character‚ L.B Jefferies‚ is a photographer before it is stated through dialogue in the film. Early into the film we
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Vertigo: A Catalyst of the Cult Movie Following Famously known as the “best movie of all time”‚ (6) Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo elicits a dumbfounded reaction to the first-time viewer. Surprisingly shocking‚ through plot and production‚ Vertigo tells the story of a discharged detective and his obsessive pursuit of a young woman who he is contracted to investigate on the orders from an old college friend. However‚ to the second‚ or third‚ or twentieth time viewer‚ Vertigo serves as a shrine to Hitchcock’s
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Rear Window Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart‚ Grace Kelley‚ Wendell Corey‚ Thelma Ritter‚ Raymond Burr Screenplay: John Michael Hayes based on a short story “It Had to be Murder” by Cornell Woolrich published 1942 Cinematography: Robert Burks Music: Franz Waxman Paramount Pictures Use of Subjective point of view. Someone said there are two kinds of people in the world‚ there are people who
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Of course Alfred Hitchcock was a misogynist‚ or at least had a neurotic compulsion to mistreat women in his films: everyone knows that. Or do they? If so‚ one must assume also that most of his heroines were masochistic‚ in that nearly all his leading actresses seem to have adored him. And if there was mistreatment‚ it mostly seems to have been meted out‚ and perceived by its apparent victims‚ as all in the spirit of innocent merriment. Ivor Montagu‚ longtime friend and script collaborator of Hitch
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Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece ‘Psycho’ is a work of classic cinema but still impresses and enthralls modern audiences in suspense‚ unlike other older thrillers. Alfred achieved popularity in the film‚ even after 50 years because of the distinctiveness and greatness of the film. Psycho is a perfectly balanced psychological thriller due to its equal parts of horror‚ thrills‚ suspense‚ blood and plot twists. The thriller doesn’t include cheap thrills‚ instead relies exclusively on story‚ script‚ direction
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Alfred Binet was a French Psychologist who was born in Nice on July 8‚ 1857. His father was a physician and his mother was an artist. Before becoming involved in the testing of cognitive abilities graduated from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and soon became a lawyer. Binet’s father wanted him to become involved in the medical field‚ but Alfred decided not to. While Binet was young he wasn’t extraordinarily brilliant‚ but he still had the willingness to work as hard as possible. Due to the wealth
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ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was an explorer of the Amazon Valley in South America. He led a zoological expedition to the Malay Archipelago.(a group of islands). This area has great biogeographical importance. Wallace‚ also studied the evolutionary change and read the writings of Thomas Malthus on human populations. He synthesized a theory of evolution similar to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. After writing the details of his theory
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com/Hollywood/Lot/7145/ By Esteban Mejia Mesa (2001) Psycho (1960) Perhaps no other film changed so drastically Hollywood’s perception of the horror film as did PSYCHO. More surprising is the fact that this still unnerving horror classic was directed by Alfred Hitchcock‚ a filmmaker who never relied upon shock values until this film. Here Hitchcock indulged in nudity‚ bloodbaths‚ necrophilia‚ transvestism‚ schizophrenia‚ and a host of other taboos and got away with it‚ simply because he was Hitchcock.
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STIEGLITZ‚ Alfred -- Father of Modern Photography Alfred Stieglitz was an influential photographer who spent his life fighting for the recognition of photography as a valid art form. He was a pioneering photographer‚ editor and gallery owner who played pivotal role in defining and shaping modernism in the United States. (Barr 23). He took pictures in a time when photography was considered as only a scientific curiosity and not an art. As the controversy over the art value of photography
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used to create specific intensities set out by the director; this is where roles corresponding to certain areas were introduced such as cinematographers‚ production designers and lighting directors. A classic example of a well-known director would be Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) who is famous for creating suspense films like The Birds or Psycho. I am mentioning him as he had revolutionised the way films
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