Essays on Hitchcock

The advancement of the modern day society leads to the assumption that the field of architecture has also developed accordingly. However, there are differing views in this respect, with some scholars supporting this view while others view a lack of a fresh perspective to the field. According to Le-Corbusier, architects are usually limited in the extent to which they can adopt new ways of thinking (92). According to him, there is a sense of conformity in the approaches that architects employ in their trade. This sense of limitation is brought about by the insistence on customary approaches to architecture. ...

Bicycle Thieves, also referred to as The Bicycle Thief is a film that tells the story of a father seeking to find a bike that has been stolen throughout Rome. The film has often been considered to be one of the most well-respected in the neorealism genre. Specifically, because of its depiction of harsh realities of life post World War II, and its effects on the conditions and psyche of individuals. A horror thriller masterpiece, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is noted for its distinctive subject matter and for spawning what is considered to be an extremely successful subgenre of the ...

Introduction

A crime is defined as an act or omission, which establishes an offence, and is punishable by law. Crimes are committed by both males and females in any society, and the United Kingdom is no exception to this rule. Naturally, the gender of a person often dictates the rate, type and the extent of crime committed. Although a committed crime has the same legal consequences, there exists some differences in terms of who commit them, the rate of their commission and the extent to which they are committed. The rate of crimes committed by males is more than that ...

Indigenous tribes have always honored life including nature; conserving natural resources for the long-term benefit of humanity (Talbot 273). With the present global capitalism, natural resources are under threat as a result of over-commercialization. Communities that guarded the sacredness of nature are also being controlled with the aim of making them extinct (Talbot 281). Over time, governments have gained control of the indigenous populations and their lands to gain commercially (Cosmic Vision News 1). The massive destruction of the environment and exploitation of natural resources through mining, pollution negatively affecting a specific ethnic group way of living constitutes an ...

Introduction

The secession or sequential exit of the Southern states from the Union was a major event in the American history that led to the Civil war. Southern secession was seen as a necessity in the plantation economy based Southern states and betrayal in the eyes of the Union. Therefore, the main research question to be explored is the factors that led to the Secession of the Southern states. The factors that played an important role in session of Southern states were abolitionist movement in the South, violation of the sectional balance and economics of slavery in the South (Meadwell & ...

The architecture of the early 20th century relied heavily on the introduction of new materials which led to the existence of new styles that rejected the notion of social hierarchy and religious affiliation. During this period, the buildings created within the early phase of modernization became so diverse and eccentric yet it was due to this nature that allowed architects to apply all the scientific knowledge in creating functional structures rather than buildings based on the designer's viewpoint. What separates the style of the 20th century from its predecessors was their openness in terms of exploring new materials especially ...

“Vertigo” is a film that has not been highly praised by critics, and that did not have much success at the cinemas, but is now widely regarded as a masterpiece of the genre. The film was shot in 1958 in the United States, the director - Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock).

Personally, I think that the main theme of the film is that our ideals, dreams are often not so ideal, not what we imagined them. The film's protagonist - a former policeman John Ferguson. He suffered from guilt complex because of an accident at work, he also decided to withdraw ...

The issue of feminism in the film industry is a common topic for controversial discussions. Many writers are more popular than others because of the ways in which feminism surfaces as the driving force behind their presentations. Feminism can be classified as a social movement that has created an enormous impact on culture of film, the theories of films and the critical reviews of films. A number of films represent the myths that reveal ideas on women and their femininity. In addition, there are films that speak to men and their masculinity. The issues of representation and spectatorship form ...

The point of many movies lies in the fact of illustrating social problems. Global and domestic issues, issues of consciousness and symbolism – all of those aspects are shown in the three movies, which will be discussed in this paper. Avant-garde filmmakers have produced tons of works and it is essential to reveal at least some of them. Powerful experiments with theatrical forms are introduced by Robert Lepage in his masterpiece, called “Le Confessionnal”. He is known as a director of game cinema and released four pictures during eight years in different countries of the world. His unique film "Confessional" ...

Gender roles have been a matter of controversy almost as long as time itself. Back when Homer was writing about the tales of the Greeks’ adventures in Troy and on the way back, it only took the wiles (in the case of Odysseus) or the looks (in the case of Paris) of a dashing man for goddesses to fall in love, and when they did, all sorts of chaos ensued afterward. In the centuries since Homer wrote his pair of epics, the interplay between the genders has been an area of focus of storytelling, and when film became an ...

In DeMille’s “The Cheat”

The art is a magical invention of the mankind, although it is possible to say that the art has invented a human being in some strange way too – that human with a delicate vision of the beauty and with fascinating creative abilities. The cinematography is one of the greatest arts. However, it is important to note the fact that the modern cinematography has turned into a huge commercial business (but not the whole, of course). It is difficult to impress a contemporary representative of our consumer society because he is surrounded by the entertainment business everywhere. However, the movies ...

Shot in 1960, Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock has made the cinema history and still remains interesting for the contemporary audience. Having seen a lot of Hitchcock’s movies (Vertigo, North by Northwest, Notorious, The Birds), I can claim that this one must be considered the best. Though they all have much in common, Psycho is prominent by the extraordinary plot, the amazing performance of the actors, and, of course, the recognizable score. Psycho had a huge success among both the critics and the audience so apart from the sequels and a TV series produced, the film has also the ...

Today, running of businesses have and is continuously changing from the capitalism and profit oriented view to corporate service to the society. Corporate social responsibilities of the businesses in today's market and the environment are one of the major determinants of the success of the business. Businesses today have the responsibility of given back to the society through ensuring that the community around then profit from the existence of the business (Hawken, Lovins, & Lovins 2009). Apart from focusing on making a profit in an organization, managers and organization are now under force to ensure that they are in a ...

According to video clip 1 The 39 steps is a thriller film directed by Alfred Hitcock whose date of release was on 1st august 1935. Allegory is a political story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. The thirty-nine step is one of a fast moving action story. The narrator tries to trace the racial as well as the ethnic discrimination that keep on continually appearing now and then. Hitcock choices in terms of pictures and setting of characters are regarded among the greatest of all time. This is because of the fact that that the nature ...

I. Introduction

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock released the iconic film, Psycho, to an unsuspecting audience.

The film broke with narrative and cinematographic techniques that had been the Hollywood standard for decades. Produced and directed on a shoestring budget, the film garnered few positive reviews. However, it still stands as the most powerful influence on the suspense, and even horror, genre. Because Psycho debuted in 1960 (when theaters were much more popular), the film is best analyzed through the lens of mass communication theory. In James Kendrick's "Psycho and the Priming of the Audience", it is argued that the mass communication model is most effective at informing an astute analysis of the film. ...

Summary and Response Practice #2

In “Why We Love TV’s Anti-Heroes,” Stephen Garrett argues that the actual nature of the hero has changed over the past few decades, and as a result the protagonists that we embrace are largely different as well. Arguing that “the heroes of today are radically different from those of two or three decades ago [and that t]hey have evolved to represent a radically changed world,” (Garrett, p. 319) Garrett claims that empathy is more important than respect when it comes to choosing a hero to emulate. Consider the highly popular program House, M.D. Thirty years ago, the hero of the ...

The rage of Achilles is the rudder that steers the Iliad. By the time the heroes of Greek lore reach modernity and Percy Jackson emerges, the clothing has changed, but the resentments of both hero and villain have changed little. Both Percy and Luke, the primary villain, harbor anger against their fathers that provide just as much motivation to them as the loss of Patroklos spurs Achilles to strike down as many Trojans as he can before he receives that fated, fatal stroke to the heel. Stephen Garrett argues that modern heroes in television programs are more conflicted and ...

Rear Window is one of the greatest work of Alfred Hitchcock and an excellent part of his experimental period. It has a very challenging concept - the audience watches almost the entire movie from the main character's rear window and that technique made Hitchcock's Rear Window a legend. The movie is focused on viewer's reaction to tension and suspense. It is persuasive, because the director puts the audience into main character's shoes.

Jeff has broken his leg and is forced to stay home for more than 7 weeks already. He has nothing to do, so he starts to be Peeping ...

Vertigo is a brilliant piece of work that presents psychoanalytic issue in an efficient manner. Vertigo is a psychological thriller directed by A. Hitchcock. The movie was premiered during sixties and praised by the audience. The director utilized all film elements in a manner to create an impression on the minds of audience. All filmic elements such as sound, color, music makes the movie very remarkable. This paper presents a detailed analysis of movie Vertigo, and how director illustrated psychoanalytical issue in an impressive manner. Vertigo has great influence of 1920’s art and movies that emphasize on imagination and experiments. Vertigo ...

Shot in 1946, the spy thriller “Notorious” by Alfred Hitchcock is a beautiful love story in the frames of real historic events. The movie is the first mature work of the director where his style and specific features form in the manner of shooting and conveying the message to the audience. “Notorious” was nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original screenplay at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947. The beginning of the movie coincides with the immediate introduction to the main characters, Alicia Huberman and T.R. Devlin. When the audience hears the judgment of the court and the ...

- Robins, G. “Understanding Ancient Egyptian Art”. The Art of Ancient Egypt by Robins. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000. 12-29. Ancient Egyptian Art continued essentially unaltered throughout the long history of the Ancient Egyptians. In order therefore to be able to understand it, one should learn about the functions and techniques of art in Ancient Egypt but also about the religious and cosmological beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians. Robins, places Ancient Egyptian art into its cultural, social and religious context and thus allows the reader to fully comprehend it. As we have covered Ancient Egyptian and ...

Genre: Suspense

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak Objective Analysis: (give a few examples and provide text to support your examples) Visual component (such as the art direction, camera angles and movement, cinematography, lighting, visual style, etc.): Hitchcock’s visual style is tense and scary, with great use of focus and top-down shots to get the feeling of Jimmy Stewart’s “vertigo.” The visual style of the opening sequence is dreamlike and unsettling, as is the dream sequence he has halfway through the movie. It really gives the feeling of losing your grip on reality. ...

Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Donen were film directors. In their early lives, Hitchcock and Donen had few friends hence they did not interact much. It is their predicament in their lonely environments that forced them to the theatres at a young age. For Donen, he grew up in neighborhood of very few Jewish families and occasional bullying from his classmates made him lonely and unhappy, a situation that led him to spend most of his time in a local movie theatre where he was able to develop a passion for films. Accordingly, Hitchcock had a lonely childhood due to his chubbiness and timidity, as a ...

“Psycho” is one of the most horrifying movies by Alfred Hitchcock. Although there were no grandiose shots, Hitchcock was able to invoke horror and thrill among the audience because of how he presented the crime scene and how he provided close ups of the victims. The black and white screen adds more horrifying effect and delivers an eerie atmosphere. Hitchcock introduces the viewers to the film’s characters and invites them to enter their world through consistent close up shots. By doing so, the audience establishes a much closer contact with the character and they seem to observe his/her experience ...

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller Psycho, one of the greatest suspense horror films of all time, focuses particularly on its main character Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a haunted young man with particularly psychological troubles. A seemingly ordinary, meek man, Norman shows throughout the film his propensity for violence, often through the lens of his mother, whose personality inhabits him in moments of great frustration and mania. Hitchcock uses many different narrative and filmic techniques to showcase these psychological lashings-out, putting the audience in Norman’s state of mind while also exposing the voyeuristic terror of his victims. The literary, dramatic ...

Introduction

Whalter White, Steve McGarrett, Gregory House and many others are amongst the most favorite fictional anti-heroes from the television series shown in today’s 21st century. They are not heroes because they do not possess the traditional heroic characteristics like perfection, brilliance, strength, etc but they are not villains either because they are not evil, immoral and diabolical. Anti-heroes first look like very wicked, uncaring, selfish or immoral but as their stories progresses, viewers get to learn how twisted their personalities are and what are the reasons behind it. They seem to purse adverse actions but their hearts are ...

Introduction

The current business world is increasingly faced with the need to address issues related to environment and sustainability as authorities increase their pressure on environment conservation in addition to investors’ demand for more sustainable business operations. In that respect, a number of arguments have been fronted by businesses and some stakeholders in support of organizations’ adaption of sustainability initiatives. However, some stakeholders have views that argue against such initiatives citing the initiatives contradiction with business managers’ primary goal of profit making, businesses’ lack of expertise to make a decision regarding sustainability and environment issues as well as their lack of accountability ...

Art & Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright, Glasner House, Glencoe, 1905 (Formalist Interpretation)

The interpretation or criticism of any work gives a new insight as it needs a thorough research with external as well as internal factors. One cannot interpret architecture same as the interpretation of drawing, painting or sculpture. It needs a completely different approach. This paper is about the interpretation of a residential building Glasner House, which was built in the beginning of the 20th century. The building was a residential architecture planned and developed by creative American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The architecture was one of the specimens of typical Prairie house. It was the symbol of the changing lifestyle- of the new emerging ...

Some movies mark their history not because of their cast, acting elements, good direction but also because they portray good themes and amazing subject that leave good message and ever lasting impression upon the audience. Psycho is considered as leading movies that are complex, psychological, and powerful thriller and suspense film, revolutionizing the history of English black and white movies. Psycho was a horror movie with amazing graphics that one had not even seen before and with shocking killings (Sterritt, 1993). It highlighted various themes and subjects such as vulnerability, corruptibility, past histories, murders, human victimization, dangerous impacts of money, ...

Introduction

Collaboration with health care professionals is crucial for enhancing enhanced better patients’ outcome. That is because each member of the healthcare team is usually trained with specific skills that allow them to offer their service efficiently in their particular discipline. Thus, bringing together the professionals provides strength for each discipline by supplementing its weakness in treating patients. In addition, effective interdisciplinary teams results in decreased costs and improvement in patients’ satisfaction, as well as a reduction in mortality and morbidity through error reduction and patients’ safety. (Institute of Medicine, 2001) In that view, this report presents an analysis of interdisciplinary ...

Psycho Movie Analysis

Psycho is a great and complex psychological thriller film from the 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock. It is known as the supreme of all modern horror suspense films, and ushered in a new kind of horror that the audiences had never seen or experienced before. It is not very well known, but this was Hitchcock's first real horror film, and he got labeled as a horror film director ever since. The film is centered on the encounter between a secretary who embezzles money from her employer and ends up at a secluded motel. She becomes the victim of Norman Bates, the motel's disturbed owner-manager, and ...

The healthcare practitioners usually confront difficult ethical choices in their quest to provide appropriate health services especially for people with diverse values (McWay 2014 p 91). Consequently, different bioethics principles have been put in place to help resolve ethical issues in the event of such diversities (Koslowski 2001 p 137). The principle of double effect encompasses the two types of consequences that results from a single action (Yelon et.al., 2014 p 374). For example; a doctor may use morphine on a dying patient. Thus, the use of morphine will have a maleficent effect of cutting short the patient’s life while simultaneously having a beneficial effect of ...

For any film director to be successful, he or she should be in a position to use the artistic styles in his movies appropriately. When a director uses his thematic and stylistic consistencies, established techniques as well as other established techniques in his films, he will be able to draw a great movie together. Alfred Hitchcock is deliberated on as one of the greatest film directors. He has been able to direct superb movies such as the Notorious. Therefore, this paper will discuss these elements based on the film, Notorious. Alfred has been able to intertwine the elements of espionage and romance ...

The thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock have not been strangers to unconventional protagonists – from Vertigo’s cowardly, power-hungry Scottie Thompson to Rear Window’s incapacitated paranoiac LB Jeffries, to the hapless journalists and playboys of his early British spy capers like Foreign Correspondent and The Lady Vanishes. Part of the thrill of Hitchcock’s thrillers is seeing a clear sense of comedy and irreverence mingling evenly with the serious, atmospheric cinematography of his films. North by Northwest is no exception, mining comedy out of an otherwise highly tense spy thriller through the haplessness of his protagonist, ad executive Roger Thornhill (Cary ...

In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates warns Phaedrus that “in every one of us there are two guiding and ruling principles” (Plato, 54). These two principles are of the same two conflicting natures found in Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train. Just as Plato’s virtuous horse and his dark, intemperate horse ride side by side guided by the same charioteer, for Highsmith, “good and evil, live side by side in the human heart, and not merely in differing proportions in one man and the next” (Highsmith, 180). Highsmith demonstrates that in the same way Plato shows the dark horse ...

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For centuries, scientists have been trying to map the concept of fear. This emotion is eminent from birth until death. Sociologists believe that this fear is what molds the society and the individual. It is the fear of the unknown that has forced us to develop medicine. Fear, like every other emotion, is developed due to thought. If thoughts did not exist, then the feeling of fear would not have existed either. Once we understand what fear is derived from, we comprehend that it is our own imagination, and ...

Provide critical analysis of a film, specifically in relation to elements of the film’s style and other topics you consider relevant. Psycho (1960) The film Psycho, by the stalwart director, Alfred Hitchcock, is one of the most iconic films in the history of cinema. The film bears the testimony to the aesthetic excellence and usage of quintessential film techniques by the director. The film has left an everlasting mark on the minds of the audience across the globe, and enjoys immense popularity even on the present day. The director places the audience away from the movie’ ...

Every individual has a different approach towards life that is founded on the basis of a specific ethical theory. The ethical theoretical structure that best describes my personal worldview is deontology. I base my personal choices on the deontological theory and try to act upon it to have memorable and desirable life experiences. As far as the deontological ethical framework is concerned, it makes people hold on to their individual rights and responsibilities for the analysis, comprehension and resolution of an ethical dilemma (Hitchcock, Schubert & Thomas, 2003). I prefer deontology as the basis of my personal worldview and decisions because ...

Answer to Question 1

The novel-based movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers has featured an entirely outrageous concept in its storyline – the involvement of alien forces in the infiltration of a small fictional town of Santa Mira, California. The capability of the aliens to produce replicas of people through atomic-mutating giant plant pods have become the subject of fear among people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which they have sought all throughout to challenge. Turning people into empty replicas of their original selves, the alien forces have taken the form of “evil” that has taken over Santa Mira, erstwhile a peaceful and balanced town ( ...

The 1958 thriller Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is commonly considered to be one of the finest films ever made, and one of the best works of Hitchcock’s career. The tale of a former police officer (James Stewart) who must deal with his issues with heights while also tracking a woman through two different lifetimes, Vertigo is a masterclass in filmmaking’s most subtle and effective techniques, resulting in a work that stands the test of time. Through its innovative use of mise-en-scene, music, performance and more, the film allows for a stunning look into paranoia and duality, raising questions about identity and ...

Voyeurism towards Women in Film: Rear Window

In the contemporary society cinema offer images that are geared towards male viewing pleasure, this is within set psychoanalytic paradigm like the voyeurism and scopophilia. Arguably, the concept of gaze is basically about the relationship of images and pleasure. In psychoanalysis, scopophilia is defined as pleasure derived in looking while exhibitionism is the pleasure of being evaluated. Manlove (88) notes that these two terms acknowledges the manner in which reciprocal relationships of viewing can derive pleasure. As such, Voyeurism can be referred to as looking while one is not being seen; it carries an exceptionally negative undertone of a powerful ...

Vertigo Analysis

Vertigo is one of classic movies that audiences watched in sixties. This psychological thriller movie is directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This paper intends to discuss vertigo and further examines how several filmic elements illustrate a significant psychoanalytic issue in the movie, vertigo. Vertigo, like other Hitchcock made movies, appears to be influenced by 1920’s movement of art and film that used to focus on conducting experiment as well as use of imagination. One prominent idea, which strikes into mind after watching vertigo, is the portrayal of an ideal woman by Hitchcock. Hitchcock seems to be very attached with ...

Movie review

The paper seeks to review the movie strangers on a train directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie shows two strangers Bruno and Guy who meet when travelling their different ways. On his side, the author uses cinematic terminology and methodology through the plot. The paper discusses the plot of the movie in brief but from the start to the end. The paper explains the nature of the movie as a both work of art and entertainment. The paper discusses how the author uses different patterns, techniques, themes and meanings to make the movie successful.

The movie starts by showing two strangers ...

The fabulous film was produced by an American film artist Alfred Hitchcock. The crime thriller film was produced basing on the 1950th of the same title. It brings into the lime light the many aspects of the crime world in the view that makes it thrilling and fabulous. This further explains the bottom part of the film which was started during the autumn of the 1950. This film was further released by Werner Bros. among the other aspects, the film has also several characters who include; Guys Haines, Miriam, Anne Morton and Bruno Antony. Hitchcock uses the script ...

Psychological thrillers have had a long and storied history in film; the ability to capture stories about the deranged and the psychotic, whatever their diagnosis, has led to many intriguing and critically acclaimed films. Two of these are Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller Psycho, in which mother-obsessed serial killer Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) stalks and murders women who check into his hotel, and the 1980 Stanley Kubrick chiller The Shining, where Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) goes insane over a harsh winter in a disturbing hotel he must oversee for the winter. Both films exercise wonderful filmic techniques to convey the shock and terror ...

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In his movies, The Birds (1963) and Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock has been able to successfully depict how dysfunctional families are responsible for giving birth to a personality that is not one that can align with the normal people in the society. In The Birds, Alfred has terrifyingly depicted how the birds could take on the characteristics of human. He revealed their ability to commit such acts that were both violent and destructive in nature. The audience could see that the birds were shown to do brutal things to the power imbalance problem solved. It can ...

Film Studies

Films have been something that has been part of man’s society ever since they were created. In this course there have been many films that were watched and assessed. Some stood out more than other and some were even worse or better than other. Many things were learned such as the art that goes into these movies and not to mention other elements such the dialogue, cinematography and sound. Of course, the actors cannot be overlooked because without them, there is not movie. With that said, the researches have picked three films to raise questions, trace motifs, and ...

Bernard Hermann is perhaps one of the finest movie scorers and composers ever to have walked this earth. His collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock is seen as being extremely important and in films such as Vertigo and Psycho he achieved a certain amount of notoriety for using advanced techniques in his musical scores which made it hard for the audience to accept at first but which also demonstrated that he could wield his influence greatly without any qualms or restrictions. Herrmann was born in New York in 1911 and studied at the Juilliard School. In 1934 he joined CBS radio ...

Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller Psycho is an excellent example of 'pure cinema' - a plethora of filmic techniques are used to great aplomb to elicit feelings of terror and unease in the audience, creating a film that chills to the bone. According to Wilshire, "The essence of Psycho is the way in which Hitchcock brilliantly uses filmic techniques to manipulate the viewer's emotions and expectations (pp. 131-132). This is most certainly true in the film's most iconic scenes, which include Marion Crane's (Vivian Leigh) murder in the shower and Norman Bates' (Anthony Perkins) contemplation in the final shot, but several other ...

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1926), a film by F. W. Murnau, is an adaption from the short story Die Reise nach Tilsit, written by Hermann Sudermann. Vertigo (1958) is a psychological thriller that shook the world audience with the enormity of shock and the cinematic excellence of Alfred Hitchcock, the stalwart director. Both the films are similar as well as dissimilar in some respects. It is intriguing to look into the commonalities of theme of love in the films and how the two artworks differ in their outlook toward life. Both the films, though directed in different times, ...

Laura Mulvey is renowned theorist of films who has written several articles about different aspects in the film industry. One of her most famous essays is “Visual pleasure in the Narrative Cinema” that generally explores the roles played by women in the film industry. Mulvey in this essay states that there are two general roles of women in the film industry. Women in the “Visual pleasure in the Narrative Cinema” excite their audience from their erotic antics as they also gain satisfaction from the feeling that they are attracting attention from the opposite sex. Their dressing styles and general ...

Grace Kelly’s Fashion Style and Influence on Contemporary Fashion

Introduction Grace Kelly was an actress known for her extensive work in film and stage during the 1950s. Kelly starred in many films and portrayed iconic characters including Lisa Carol Fremont in “Rear Window”, Frances Stevens in “To Catch a Thief”, and Princess Alexandra in “The Swan”. She was born on November 12, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although Kelly was born to a family of athletes, she showed interest in acting at a young age and joined several plays and presentation in school and the community, and signed up for small modeling projects. Later on, Kelly attended the American Academy of ...

Introduction

Lara Mulvey is a renowned theorist of films who has written several articles about different aspects in the film industry. One of her most famous essays is Visual Pleasure in the Narrative Cinema that generally explores the roles played by women in the film industry (Thornham 25). Lara in this essay states that there are two general roles of women in the film industry. She outlines the male gender automatic power to look at women as desire objects by the passive observation of their bodies. In this case, the women become simple symbols or objects with no real power ...

Films have been known to dominate throughout the world since time immemorial. They are also referred to as motion pictures or movies. A film is actually a series of motionless images that are contained on a plastic strip that when run using a projector and shown on a monitor creates the illusion of images that are moving. Filmmaking process is both an industry and an art. Films are essentially cultural artifacts that are created by particular cultures. These films reflect the concerned cultures and in turn affect them. Film is an imperative art form, a powerful medium that is used in indoctrinating or educating ...

Film Studies

- The technique that was used by the director of the film to coordinate the foreground and background elements gave a feeling of anticipation. This was mostly viewed when the background sound was used to prepare the audience for a certain action. An example is the female shadow was approaching to commit a murder. - The subjects on the side of the image relate in the sense that they have been used to depict the past offences that were misunderstood. For instance, when Norman found Marion dead, he thought it was the mother who committed the crime yet it was the ...

Assignment One: Portfolio of work Maximum

Skyfall Plot

A hard-drive that contains vital information about all the NATO operatives, who are undercover in the terrorist organizations, has been stolen and the head of British Intelligence – M is put under an embarrassing scrutiny by bureaucrats. After a near near-death incident, an out of colour 007 is sent out to retrieve the drive, as he is led to a man called Silva, who is out on a revenge mission to destroy both MI6 and M.

Review

Sam Mendes seems to be playing with the old themes, as well as the new ones with the return of 007 on its 50th ...

Germany has produced many famous women in the entire genre, may it be art and literature, struggle for freedom, painting, film making, politics, top executive positions in organizations and so on. My goal in this paper is to describe one of the famous women from 1940’s to 1950’s.

Margarethe von Trotta, considered as the “world’s leading feminist filmmaker”, and the most supreme film directors from the Europe continent, was born on 21st February 1942 in Berlin. She is one of the most eminent female directors to arise from the New German Cinema movement. She started her ...

This Darren Aronofsky classic has left many a critic dumbfounded, not just after watching the movie for the first time, but even after the second, third or even tenth views of this film. The sheer techniques used in Requiem for a Dream hits the audience with so hard a punch that they are left dazed for a few moments, wondering what had hit them, before finally recovering their composure. Perhaps people would have been less horrified by the vivid imagery of this film had Aronofsky classified it as a “Horror Film”. But horror films do not make it to the Oscars, do they? In ...

Introduction

The movie Rear Window, which Alfred Hitchcock made in 1954 (Krinsky), was based on the short story It Had to be Murder, which was written by Cornell Woolrich in 1942 (“Rear Window”). Although there are differences between the movie and the short story, the story is basically about a man who is temporarily confined in a wheelchair because of his legs being in a cast. As such, he has nothing to do all day except look out his bedroom window and observe the goings-on in his neighbors’ lives through their windows. As the story goes on, Jeffries, the main character, begins to ...

Hitchcock is the man behind several films. These include The Psycho, The Birds, North by North West; Rebecca among others. Hitchcock exudes a lot of similarity between the films. The Psycho is similar to other books in a variety of aspects. One is that Psycho employs suspense just like other films. The film encompasses scenes in which there is a lot of tragedy. However, when a massacre or killing is about to happen, the audience is not shown this. The audience only sees blood to affirm that a certain character has died. In psycho, we are not shown the blade hitting a particular victim ...