Alfred

Audre Lorde said, “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” Although they do share some similarities, Alfred Adler and Sigmund Freud’s differences were substantial. Adler and Freud had once paved the way for modern day psychology together, but were inevitably torn apart by their differences in psychological theory. Adler had a very positive, somewhat appreciative point of view on religion, believing it bettered people.…

Alfred Hitchcock once said “there is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it”(Crow, Jonathan).One of the greatest filmmakers of all times, was nicknamed “The Master of Suspense” for he was creating a psychological suspense in his films, which resulted in a unique watching experience (Alfred Hitchcock." Bio.com.). He was also an acknowledge master of the thriller, a genre he virtually invented (Ramirez Berg, Charles) and a brilliant technician. Born in London on August 13, 1899…

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…

Alfred Hitchcock was a film director from England who moved the United States in 1939. He was famously known as the “Master of Suspense”. Hitchcock’s golden years of his cinema career were from the 1950’s to the 1960’s. During this time, he made various famous films, such as Vertigo, North by the Northwest, and Psycho. When we compare these films it’s hard to find something they might have in common. Each film has different lighting effects, colors, and types of shots. Hitchcock utilizes mise en…

Alfred Hitchcock: The Journey from Armature to Professionalism Alfred Hitchcock was widely regarded as "The Master of Suspense." He was an English film director and producer. He was a master of pure cinema who never failed to meet the expectation of viewers. He established his own brand in cinema which delivered the high demand of the Box office. He introduced different styles and camera techniques to maximize the elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres in his movies. He had a…

In Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Rear Window, he uses elements of film in a way that expresses to the audience what the character desires and the power relations that exist between them. In the sequence where Lisa and L.B. Jeffries have dinner from “21 Club,” their contradicting desires are expressed through these various elements. For example, Hitchcock uses framing, editing, and character positioning within the mise-en-scene to portray that Lisa desires Jeff but he doesn’t feel as strongly of her.…

In Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Rear Window, a particular scene begins with main character LB Jeffries confined to his wheelchair with a broken leg, and Stella, LB’s house nurse, watching across the courtyard as LB’s frustrated lover, Lisa, climbs the fire escape and steps into murder suspect, Thorwald’s, open window of his apartment, and begins to search for anything suspicious. Thorwald returns to find Lisa in his apartment. Luckily the police arrive and save her before she is assaulted. The scene…

Hitchcock had many other technical devices that he used in order to grab the viewers’ attention, such as having the audience as a voyeur and the MacGuffin. Hitchcock used voyeurism to blur the lines between the innocent and the guilty, as well to put the audience in a position in which they become personally engaged with the characters of the film. Having the audience as a voyeur, was able to put the viewers in the film as a sense just watching a movie. The viewers were in a way transplanted in…

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock had made the film “Psycho”. He was also the best known film director in the world. Psycho is mixed with a little bit of horror, mystery, and thriller. The first film ever published was in black and white. In 1930, William Faulkner published “A Rose for Emily”. A Rose for Emily is more of a southern gothic genre. There isn’t too many similarities besides that there are two psycho people. Hitchcock and Faulkner are both well-known people. In psycho there was one main…

film is something that everyone recognizes, be it the music of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones or “Eye of The Tiger” in Rocky 3. We recognize these musical pieces because they are in simple terms, remember able. But what about the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho? Originally this music, which is voted as one of the scariest movie theme tunes ever, wasn’t going to be in the film. The differences that the tune makes in the film are immense, as it draws a new picture into what is…