Alfred Bester

Hitchcock captures a montage at a medium shot of Devlin and Alicia deliberating how they will go through more searching of both her husband and his connections. Specifically, Alicia responded that she did not receive the key to the basement filled with wine. Devlin makes a suggestion to Alicia that she should encourage Sebastian to host a party as well as announce his new wife, in which he does. After Devlin gives Alicia this request, she leaves to complete this request, and a wide shot is being…

This is a story about a door-to door jewelry salesman, Lars Thorwald and his extremely ill wife and a single man who is a traveling photographer, L. B. Jefferies, who spies on his neighbors due to his boredom while he is stuck in his apartment due to an accident which caused him to break his leg and now he is immobilized for a couple of months. While peering at several of his neighbors, he has memorized each of their daily routines and one particular couple peaks his interest. Although Jefferies…

firing manual was the most concerning to the French, who had discovered it since it was so difficult to obtain. This led to an immediate search to find the agent within the ranks who was spying for the Germans. Eventually, one of the main suspects was Alfred Dreyfus who was a Jewish Alsatian. With only the Bordereau and handwriting analysis and information not disclosed to his lawyer,…

The film "Shadow of a Doubt" is a 1943 film by Alfred Hitchcock. The film's principle plot line concentrates on young lady, Charlie, and her Uncle Charlie who chooses to go and visit her and her gang. Little did she, or the whole family so far as that is concerned, realize that Uncle Charlie had a different motivation. Uncle Charlie went to visit the family on the grounds that he is running from the place where he grew up, where he is a serial killed of ladies widowers. Escaping the scene he…

Joseph Sargent’s 1974 crime/drama/thriller film, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, centers on a heist of a New York subway cart and the race against time to catch the culprits and save the hostages. The dramatic aspect is embedded within the development of the colorful, diverse characters and their dissimilar reactions towards the crime situation. These character’s different personalities as well as their different agendas almost hinder the narrative of the film, but diegetic elements stop…

Meaning and Purpose The book called “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl is about three distinct phases of the average prisoner’s psychological response to life. Which is the phase immediately after arriving to the Concentration Camp, the phase of the prisoner’s fate and their liberation. The first phase talked about in the book is characterized by the symptom of shock. The writer relives his experience of arriving at Auschwitz by train. He recalls the horrible feeling that rushed over…

Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O’Keeffe was American female artist born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1905) and the Art Students League in New York City (1907-1908). O’Keeffe on April 3, 1917, had her first solo show. It was sponsored by John Singer Sargent, a artist Georgia admired very much and would later become her husband, featured charcoal sketches, which O'Keeffe had made in 1916. Stieglitz was captivated by them and begun also one of the most famous…

More specifically horror films. According to The Films of Alfred Hitchcock by Robert A. Harris and Michael S. Lasky, Hitchcock stated that “Psycho is a humorous film, the darkest of black comedies to be sure, yet humorous nonetheless”(217). Hitchcock enjoyed making these types of film, and especially this one in particular. Alfred Hitchcock is a man that like to play with the audiences emotions. “The violence in the scene is what keeps people…

Asexual is a word that describes how someone feels. Asexual means that a person has no sexual feelings or association. A asexual person who doesn’t want to have sex or has ever had sex. I have met some asexual people, the told me they were asexual but I never knew what asexuality was. I think being asexual is good because it’s a kind of way of not getting in trouble. In a way where a person can get pregnant, or get STD’s. I think that sometimes people who are asexual were influenced to be…

6) Psycho http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 I never thought black and white could be so gooooooood. I love this movie because it has so much meaning behind it. The beginning is one of the most powerful sense of its time. A women being undress on screen was a big no no. Then a trusted secretary women stealing 40 thousand dollars then running with it out of town. The director wanted to show that women at the time could do what men could do. That they weren't any different. I…