Alfred Hitchcock

classic among the entire horror movie genre with many memorable iconic scenes by the only Alfred Hitchcock in the history of Cinema. Tense, horrific and a superb lesson in filmmaking, it offers complex characters and revealing dialogue with a huge regard for details. Psycho also features glorious use of mise-en-scene, a fancy French term for all of the visual elements in the frame used to infer meaning. Hitchcock famously uses this concept in the parlor scene, where Marion and Norman talk over…

movie enthusiasts all possess. It is this suspense that they all seek, and it is especially common in Alfred Hitchcock’s films in which the most enticing moments are lurking around the corner. Specifically in Strangers on the Train, Hitchcock uniquely rolls out the drama by both expanding and contracting the audience’s knowledge as well as the characters’ knowledge. More precisely yet, Hitchcock alludes to actions that seem imminent, but are purposely withheld until the climax. One scene in…

Sumeyye Aydin Film Response of Vertigo A retired detective, Scottie, follows his old friend’s wife, Madeleine, because of her bizarre behavior after his old friend’s request in the movie Vertigo directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Scottie’s mental health starts to break down after he searches the problem with Madeleine. Vertigo is one of the most complex movies in terms of components of narration, which are plot, the three-part dramatic structure as well as narration’s range of story information. At…

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…

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…

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…

Writing for an audience was not my strong suit before coming to UMass. My writing always focused on speaking to whoever stumbled upon it. To me, literature, in any form, was always meant for the masses. I composed my words in a manner anyone could understand. That my ideas were understood was always more important than impressing my audience. Why place your ideas on top of a tower of words built from the depths of your lexicon? People only do it to build the tower so high its onlookers…

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…

foreshadowing in the plot development. Madelynn Phillips IB Film 8 Psycho Shower Scene Analysis The “shower scene” is one of the most widely recognized scenes in movie history. The movie, Psycho, was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and the specific scene is nearly six minutes long. Hitchcock used a wide variety of camera angles, movements, framing, lighting, sound, and edits to express a deeper meaning than it seems to portray. The scene starts off with Norman Bates standing by himself in…

Vertigo is a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height. This feeling translates to the 1958 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock titled Vertigo, which is based on the novel “D’entre Les Morts” by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The film is a romantic story of obsession, manipulation, and fear. In the film, a detective is forced to retire after his acrophobia, fear of heights, and accompanying vertigo causes the death of a fellow…