In many of Alfred Hitchcock’s films‚ we are able to see how specific periods influence his work. In the case of postwar era‚ Hitchcock is able to evoke the aftermath of World War II issues and themes through the sub-text of films like I Confess (Warner Brothers‚ 1953) and The Trouble with Harry (Paramount‚ 1955). Though each film is completely different from the other‚ stylistically‚ genre-wise‚ tone-wise‚ scenery-wise; they both revolve around death‚ albeit approached from an entirely different
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10 announced today’‚ ’have you seen the latest Spielberg?’. • "Take thy face hence." (William Shakespeare‚ Macbeth V.iii) • "I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." (T. S. Eliot‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock") • "The daily press‚ the immediate media‚ is superb at synecdoche‚ at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing." (Bruce Jackson) understatement A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberatelys
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Alfred Hitchcock It is said that a director’s main objective is to create films that capture their audience’s attention and one director who has defiantly demonstrated this in all his film is Alfred Hitchcock‚ using various film techniques and his very own cinematic style. Hitchcock fashioned himself a distinctive and recognisable style. The audience is encouraged to identify with the camera which moves in a way that is supposed to mimic a person’s gaze‚ forcing viewers to engage in a form of
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Jane Eyre The novel Jane Eyre is a story about a stoic woman who fights her entire life through many trials and tribulations until she finds true love and achieves an almost nirvana-like state of being. The manner‚ in which Charlotte Bronte writes‚ her tone and diction especially‚ lends its self to the many purposes of the novel. The diction of Bronte usually had characteristics of gothic culture and showed the usually negative and angry inner thoughts of Jane. The tone of the novel was there sympathetic
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Alfred Molina was born in London on May 24‚ 1953.His mother‚ Giovanna‚ was an Italian house-keeper who cleaned rooms in a hotel and worked as a cook. His father‚ Esteban‚ was a Spanish immigrant from Madrid who worked as a waiter and chauffeur. He decided to become an actor after seeing Spartacus at the age of nine. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and later HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City. His stage work includes two major Royal National Theatre productions
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How did the rulers of early medieval Europe like Charlemagne‚ Otto of Saxony‚ Alfred the Great‚ and William the Conqueror set certain precedents for their emerging nations? Well for starters‚ Charlemagne did bring a whole lot to the table. The only significant thing I got out of him was the fact that he split his empire into “countries”‚ with a total of 300 counts watching those territories. Otto brought his German self‚ and conquered all of the “Holy Roman Empire”. He starts the election
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As Ishmael explained all that he had gone through in his journey of being a child soldier to being free‚ he uses diction in his writing to make the story easier to understand. A lot of times many writers use different types of diction so that the writing has a clearer meaning to the reader. In this memoir‚ Ishmael was able to use different types of diction for the reader to be able to understand the importance of scenes while in the war. “I stood there holding my gun and felt special because I was
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Psycho Analysis Psycho was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The horror film was made in the 1960s based on the novel Psycho by Robert Bloch. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures in 1960 to 1968 and then by Universal studios 1968 to present. The thriller illustrates the encounter of secretary Marian Crane played by Janet Leigh who is hiding in an abandoned motel and the motels owner Norman Bates played by Anthony Perkins‚ it then proceeds to describe the aftermath of their encounter. The
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Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was a fairly restrained young man‚ graduating from one of France’s most notable military academies‚ The Ecole Polytechnique. He was devoted to serving his country‚ and more importantly‚ to his wife and child. On what began as a characterless day in 1894‚ artillery officer Dreyfus was arrested under the pretenses that he was selling military secrets to a German attaché in Paris. The accusations were false‚ and there was no incriminating evidence against him‚ only that he was
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able to view multiple films by a specific director in succession. They studied these films and recognized a series of reoccurring motifs‚ both narrative and formal‚ that created a signature style and form consistent in all of the director’s works. Alfred Hitchcock is widely considered a master filmmaker and one of the quintessential
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