Essays on Alfred Hitchcock

He was known to his audiences as the ‘Master of Suspense’ and what Hitchcock mastered was not only the art of making films but also the task of taming his own imagination. Director of many works such as Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds and The 39 steps, Hitchcock told his stories through intelligent plots, witty dialogue…

Introduction             Film as a major form of artistic and creative expression is constantly subjected into uncompromising situations. This renowned work of art is consistently torn by various issues and intrigues. The controversies that surround the whole movie industry stem from different aspects. Some of these are often caused by the seemingly never-ending bickering of…

Alfred Hitchcock is the acknowledged master of the thriller genre he was one of the first if not the first director to blended suspense humor and sex appeal to create something never viewed before on the world cinema stage.He was known to his audience as the “Master of Suspense” and what Hitchcock mastered was not…

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a uniquely captivating film that is an exemplary style of cinematic craftsmanship. Reaching into the minds of the characters, as well as the audience, Alfred Hitchcock is the master at utilizing the juxtaposition of images to bring us into the minds of the characters. In Rear Window, the story is…

I will demonstrate this ambivalence through an examination of both films using Tania Modleski’s article, Ritual of Defilement and Robert Sklar’s Death at Work: Hitchcock’s Violence and Spectator Cinema in order to prove that violence against women serves as a way to suppress women’s power in order to restore patriarchal rder, touching on the fact…

The central propositions of Auteur theory rest on the aspect of film criticism maintaining that a director’s personal vision of creativity is reflected in the films he or she creates. This can also be extended to all others in the production process who contribute to the creation of the film. In essence, the key to…

For this essay I am going to describe, in detail, what Alfred Hitchcock did to make Psycho an innovative film, a new one that hadn’t been around before. It is famous because at the time it had a huge effect on the audience, we’re analysing how and why it did.In the 1950’s America had a…

NotoriousAfter viewing Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious for the first time, the filmdid not strike me as particularly complex. Nothing specific about the filmlodged itself in my brain screaming for an answeror, at least, an attemptedanswer. Yet, upon subsequent viewings, subtle things became more noticeable. (Perhaps Hitchcock’s subtlety is what makes him so enormously popular!)Hitchcock uses motifs…