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    Rear Window Analysis

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    Critical Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window In films we watch today there is often many different morals or meanings portrayed within the story, sometimes we are unware of these themes when we first watch a film and do not understand it until we have actually thought about the purpose of the film. In Alfred Hitchcock's movie Rear Window, we see many meanings and morals to his story throughout the viewing. For example, the movie prompts us to look at ideas of mortality, compassion,…

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    In the classical Hollywood area and beyond there is a clear and obvious depiction of the male gaze in film and it has become particularly synonymous with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, most notably in his 1958 film Vertigo. In many of Hitchcock’s films the male gaze is not only evident but is what contributes largely to the storyline. It is used to highlight the importance of the men and objectify woman to only be seen as an object of male desire. This is successfully done in Vertigo through…

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    Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock introduced an important kind of movie, the slasher film, to America in 1968. Notably, there is a really good background to the film. In fact, it had lots of facts the world would be dying to know. Next, it has a bunch of effects that I was shocked once I had heard. In all, Psycho is a pretty good movie in general. This movie Psycho was created in the 1960s and then later on it was copied and re-written to a more famous version of 1998. Foremost, Alfred referred…

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    Mise En Scene In Vertigo

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    classic films; however, Vertigo, by Alfred Hitchcock, tops the list. Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart were household names in the 1950’s. Stewart had appeared in more than fifty films, and three of those fifty were directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The two had previously worked together on the film Rope in 1948; the film Rear Window in 1954; as well as, The Man Who Knew to Much in 1956 (Spoto 569-576). Vertigo, released in 1958, is the fourth, and final, film Hitchcock and Stewart worked on…

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    genres in film. Since the father of the thriller, Alfred Hitchcock, released Psycho, thrillers have captivated audiences with the combination of suspense and anxiety. Austrian-born director Michael Haneke, takes the central ideas of thrillers and places his own twists and style in his film to create his own unique brand of thriller. This is very evident in this 2002 movie, Caché. Despite Psycho and Caché both being classified as thrillers, Hitchcock and Haneke have different fundamental…

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    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…

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    As Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window has been out since 1954, there have been many reviews and speculations about the film as a whole. The reviews are both positive and negative, some going in depth about the plotline and others giving the basics of the plotline as a reason for their opinion. This film is one that has a very good story, but seemingly questionable ethics and standards. In 1983, Vincent Canby wrote a review about Rear Window for the New York Times. He praised the movie that was…

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    happen. It has happened to be one of the biggest hits ever in the 60’s. He has been one of the first people to introduce many things in the film industry, especially the toilet scene. In a way Hitchcock makes us want more and it gets us to anticipate and to expect for more things to happen. Alfred Hitchcock turns our stomachs upside down and leaves us wanting more. He accomplishes this by putting all his effort into this film and picking out the things that shouldn’t be there. Such as the…

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    The film vertigo which was released in 1958 which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Vertigo is about a detective which has a fear of heights which is portrayed in the opening credits as the spinning and the spiral’s symbolises the detectives fear of heights as the detective suffers from an illness which is called ‘vertigo’. This is portrayed through the opening credits as the spiral’s convey the detectives emotions in the film through the opening credits we know what type of genre the film will…

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    Psycho Social Psychology

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    Psycho Psycho is a film that captures your attention and keeps you on your toes from beginning to end. Unlike the gory horror films of today, Psycho, as the name suggests, plays to the psychology of the crimes and events. The main character, Norman Bates, is based off of the murderer Ed Gein. Norman is an odd young man from the start and has a strange attachment to his his mother just like Gein. One of the quotes that stays in my mind from this movie is when Norman tells Marian "After all, a…

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