Alfred Kinsey

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…

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…

Released in 1935, The 39 Steps is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous masterpieces. Quickly becoming an international success, it established Hitchcock’s unshaken status as the cinematic ‘master of suspense’. This classic film is particularly notable today for combining suspense and humor, and many of Hitchcock’s other trademarks as it inspired many remakes and adaptations. The thriller starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll and Peggy Ashcroft is loosely based on the 1915 novel of the same…

Chores done, nurse left saying she'd call back around tea time. Michael was soon up stairs asking lots of nothings, smiling, as pleased as punch. A wrinkly sight was Raymond, with a thatch of jet-black hair. He had settled from the smack on his bottom. Michael and Rose embraced looking adoringly at each other and feeling as pleased as punch. ‘What did he weigh’ he asked? ‘6 pound 3 ounces and lungs that will put Benjamin Gigli to shame’ Rose laughed. In fact not really knowing what to say or…