Alfred Hitchcock

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) is a story about a photographer on his last week of recuperation from his last assignment where he was severely injured on the race track taking a picture of the wreckage. While recuperating Jeff has come into the deplorable habit of people watching his neighbors outside his rear view window, while watching he suspects one of his neighbors to have murdered his wife. Not being able to provide an eye witness account to what he believes happened he has his…

Psycho there is a scene where the lead female actress Janet Leigh is in the shower and she gets murdered, but it doesn’t actually show her getting stabbed. The history of this movie is that it is horror movie, and it was directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano, starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles and Martin Balsam, and was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. In the 1960 and 1998 version of the movie Psycho I believe…

HITCHCOCK’S FASHIONABLE WOMEN: A SIGN OF OPPRESSION OR ARTISTIC EXPRESSION? Female characters play important roles in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. His films also show that he was conscious of the visual and symbolic impact of women’s fashions. His lead actresses are always well dressed and their outfits reflect various stereotypical images of women. This might be seen as an example of how cinematic depictions of fashion contribute to gender-based oppression in society. On the other hand…

Psycho (1960) - The old classics are often the scariest, absent of CGI and modern technology that leaves the filmmaker to rely on other devices, such as music, super talented actors, and the ambiance, mood, and tone of the film, overall. Alfred Hitchcock produces one of the most notable jump scares of all time with Marion's scene in the shower when she is being stabbed by Norman, who is of course, acting on behalf of, "Mother". I'm pretty sure Janet Lee gets the jump scare, scream…

Released in 1955, To Catch a Thief was one of three films director Alfred Hitchcock produced within an eighteenth month period and was the result of a collaboration with rising screenwriter John Michael Hayes, whom he had previously worked with on Rear Window. Quickly written and produced, the film is about retired cat-burglar John Robie, who after being framed for a ring of jewel thefts in the French Riviera, seeks to find the real culprit, while evading the police and the romantic advances of…

Reactions, Historical Context, and Spectrality in Stage Fright The film Stage Fright is often overlooked in viewers canons of Alfred Hitchcock’s work. It’s easy to see why, released in 1950 in the middle of Hitchcock’s career as a filmmaker it was received negatively and is neither one of his early works nor one of his later masterpieces. Critics on the other hand have clung to the film, but tend to present “what” Stage Fright did as an example of the unreliable narrator and the use of…

watching Vertigo and my god, what a masterpiece. It is, of course, as good as anyone says it is. This film is packed with fantastic suspense techniques, a whole lot of mystery and a great amount of unhealthy obsession. There is no doubt about it, Alfred Hitchcock executed this film to nearly perfection BUT this film would not be the masterpiece it is without another incredible genius, Bernard Herrmann. His compositions throughout the entire movie literally made the movie and I am sure that most…

For its time, Rear Windows special effects were good and helped advance the plot. A specific example is everyone “rushing” outside when they hear the commotion between Jimmy and Lars. Hitchcock actually sped up normal shots to create a feeling of anxiety and panic that pulls the viewer in to the climax of the movie, much like action sequences in today’s films. However, these rushing sequences look a bit odd when you compare the same kind…

Can movies from different time periods and different genre comply the same message? The movie Bernie directed by Richard Linklater, in 2011 versus the movie Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1960, Lets the audience see a similar message of incertitude of gender insensitivity. Between the two films and the evidence of the main characters Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede And Norman Bates have a similar persona throughout the movies and what caused their actions of being homosexuality.The two…

7 best psycho-thriller movies from Hollywood that are can make you go inquisitive. Psychological thriller movies tend to fascinate a lot of viewers with developing a feeling of suspense, moods of anxiety, fury and confusion at the same time. The audience of the film are trying to figure out what’s next and then there’s a twist where comes a feeling of exhilaration. The extent of creating intrigue and mystery in which mind-games are involved leading a person to become inquisitive about what’s…