Alfred Tarski

Blockbusters would not have today's blockbuster directors without independent film. Some would argue that independent and blockbuster films co-exist in a way to portray form versus effects. Directors who merge both like Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and George Lucas founded blockbuster films by starting with independent films outside of the system with distinct visions, attracting younger audiences. In today’s Hollywood system, it’s quite possible for an independent film to be purchased or…

books, and short stories all create and utilize suspense in many different ways, shapes, and forms. From the tension and worry feeling shown in movies, to foreshadowing about what will happen in literature. Author Daphne du Maurier and filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock both used many ways to create suspense in their takes on the horror story, “The Birds.” However, only one author utilized suspense the best. Between du Maurier’s short story and Hitchcock's film, Hitchcock’s film did a better job of…

Man (1956), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963). For the sake of comparison and to support my arguments I have made references to other prominent films of Hitchcock. My study also proposes to analyze how Alfred Hitchcock positions the culture of America in the 1950s in his films, how he represents the middle-class society, ideology and culture of America. It also aims to bring out how cultural studies can be applied to understand the Hitchcockian…

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…

An Existentialist Pretending to be an Adlerian While I believe Adlerian therapy is the best practice for me working with clients, existentialism has played a primary role in my personal development over the past ten years. The concept that “The existentialist does not view death negatively but holds that awareness of death as a basic human condition gives significance to living” became crystal clear to me in 2006 (Corey, 2017, p 145). Following nearly a year of exponentially increasing pain, I…

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film Vertigo is now considered by the American Film Institute to be the best film of all time. With that title comes some flack for “beating” out all of the other films that come out ever. Obviously this title is subjective and doesn’t make the film anymore better or meaningful than it previously was, but the backlash from film critics are kind of ironic being about Vertigo. People are writing article after article and blog post after blog post about how Vertigo doesn’t…

Film has been a growing culture since the beginning of the twentieth century, and no one has contributed to this culture quite like Spielberg has. Steven Spielberg grew up in a Jewish family and began his film career at just 16. His debut was with his short film in a local theater of his hometown. Spielberg is the best filmmaker of all time because of his unbelievable contributions to science fiction, his unparalleled capabilities as a storyteller, and his industry-influencing movie masterpieces…

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…

Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst who was born in 1885. Her ideologies and theories regarding the personality contrasted greatly from Sigmund Freud’s and are still widely viewed today. Horney focused heavily on the idea of hypercompetitiveness and it’s effects on people. She first developed this idea when she came to America in the 1930’s. 
 Horney defines hypercompetitiveness as “a sweeping desire to compete and win in order to keep or heighten beliefs that one is worthy.” (Engler, 2014).…

The Bourne Identity is an action, spy thriller, and a love movie. The movie is directed by Doug Liman and one of the main stars is Matt Damon. Throughout this movie, it has you on the edge of your seats because with all the action and love scenes in it. As I began to watch the movie more and more I noticed that I have already seen the movie because it felt like déjà vu. In the film you see that Bourne is running away and trying to find his identity at the same time. That brings me to what I want…