Alfred

Man (1956), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963). For the sake of comparison and to support my arguments I have made references to other prominent films of Hitchcock. My study also proposes to analyze how Alfred Hitchcock positions the culture of America in the 1950s in his films, how he represents the middle-class society, ideology and culture of America. It also aims to bring out how cultural studies can be applied to understand the Hitchcockian…

Master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960’s best seller Psycho is a story of a young employer who stole a hefty amount of money and then running away in order to be with the man she loves, gets lost and decides to stay at a motel for the night, shortly regretting what she’s done. This film, featuring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates and Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, breaks cinematic history. With Hitchcock’s great eye for detail, he engrosses audiences in this ground breaking psychological…

2. work. The McGuffin is a narrative element, a plot excuse, is the theme or objective that starts a chain of actions and events in the film but it´s importance fade as the story develops (…). This element became something important and characteristic on Hitchcock´s films, as it makes the character actions have sense and at the same time is a way to conceal a theme or catch the audience´s attention and make a smooth transition to personal and emotional issues. A McGuffin appears at some point…

Author Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist, was born in February 7, 1870. Adler was the second of seven children. While growing up, Adler suffered from physical ailments which included rickets and pneumonia. True to his theory on birthing order, Alder was always competitive with his older brother. Alfred Adler was already a part of the medical field. He started his medical career as an ophthalmologist and went on at a later date became a general practicnoer. One of the main areas of interest…

Music and angles are a very key point in films of all kinds. This particular film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock is a prime example of the importance of camera angles and movies. Director Hitchcock himself said that “33% of the effect of Psycho was due to the music.” That is just the music alone, add in the camera angles and it makes up the majority of the movies suspense! Psycho, is a horror film in which a man named Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) runs a motel, but suffers from…

Alfred Hitchcock is the master of suspense as we have learned over the course of this semester. Three main things that we’ve in his movies were; he would use mounting tension, as seen in rope; he would use the grand reveal as seen in vertigo; and he would balance his suspense with humor as seen mostly in north by northwest. These three things could all be considered suspenseful, especially around the fifties and sixties. The first style of suspense, mounting tension was shown in rope. One…

Alfred Hitchcock paints a portrait of an American family in his 1943 film Shadow of a Doubt. Set within picturesque Santa Rosa, California, the film examines the Newtons, who, on the surface, represent the archetypal middle class family living in a peaceful American town. However, Young Charlie, played by Teresa Wright, profoundly resents her “average” lifestyle, which appears to her as nothing more than an endless repletion of the same routine. Following the conventions of a Hitchcock film,…

Alfred of Hitchcock once said, "There is no terror in the bang, only the anticipation of it." Hitchcock was an English and American film director and producer. He was best known as the "Master of Suspense;" and one of his masterpieces, the 1954 film "Rear Window," truly deserved him the title. The film starred James Stewart, who played as the travel photojournalist L.B Jeffries; and Grace Kelley who played as Lisa Carol Freemont, Jeffries' Manhattan socialite girlfriend. The story surrounded…

Wording, clothing, and sex were some of the most reoccurring problems the Production Code Administration had with Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film Rear Window. Throughout their communications, the PCA and the filmmakers discuss scenes that have subtle sexual undertones, risqué costumes, and wordings that the PCA found to be unacceptable. The correspondence between the filmmakers and the PCA begin around November 1953 and go on until around April 1954. Most of the letters are between Paramount…

The opening scene of Rear Window (1954), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, acts as a prologue of the film: we are introduced to the space where much of the narrative will take place, to the protagonist, his background, and his neighbors through entirely visual means. Hitchcock created an entire film from the rear window of a Greenwich Village apartment symbolizing a certain “movie-watching” experience. Hitchcock uses mise en scène to show how the film is going to progress, uses camera movement…