Alfred

Many of Alfred Hitchcock films all seem to revolve around the noir genre of films, but Notorious (1946), is a film that is focused on a combination of romance and suspense. This film can also be considered as one Hitchcock’s favorite films since it was one of his first work as a producer. Personally, this film seemed to have a lot going on but in a very simplistic way. The use of “pure cinema” was also used in a variety of cinematic shots of pure genius to helped take the audience in a romance…

Strangers on a Train Alfred Hitchcock is an auteur that is recognizable as a director. He is known as the master of suspense and through his artistic choices he is the author of his films. Hitchcock has his own persona and often appeared in cameos in his films. His unique style leaned away from studying films as a genre but through an auteur approach, Cashiers du Cinema written by the father of auteruirsm, Andre Bazin. Bazin stresses on mise-en-scène, the content of images, that reveals the…

An audience attending a Hitchcock film is required to do much more than eat popcorn and drink soda! A Hitchcock film immerses the audience within the action of the film using stylistic and cinematic elements, such as: camera placement, editing, point of view, subjectivity and objectivity, all working together in ways that help to evoke certain emotions, while also provoking certain questions, making you wonder just what in the world Hitchcock is going to do next? In 39 Steps, one can see the…

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) is a story about a photographer on his last week of recuperation from his last assignment where he was severely injured on the race track taking a picture of the wreckage. While recuperating Jeff has come into the deplorable habit of people watching his neighbors outside his rear view window, while watching he suspects one of his neighbors to have murdered his wife. Not being able to provide an eye witness account to what he believes happened he has his…

“The Masters of Suspense & Music” Alfred Hitchcock was the mastermind responsible for revolutionizing the horror, suspense and thriller genres. Inspired by French and Italian films, Alfred Hitchcock set out to produce a film that will not only break from current Hollywood trends but transform the entire film industry. Hitchcock’s 1960 film, “Psycho,” is considered the leading film from the New American Era, that pioneered many elements for the horror and psychological thriller genres. The…

the concept of female sexuality, often referred to as female power, is introduced within W. Scott Poole’s expository text Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting along with Alfred J. Hitchcock’s classic film Psycho. While both W. Scott Poole and Alfred J. Hitchcock addressed the rise of female sexuality in a similar manner, Hitchcock presents the increase of women’s promiscuity throughout the sexual revolution, while Poole presents the societal fears and…

Watching someone get murdered on screen is startling, but it’s even more startling when the audience does not expect it to happen. Psycho, a film by Alfred Hitchcock is an American classic, because of one specific scene, the scene where Marion Crane is stabbed to death in the shower. Psycho starts with Crane stealing the money of a client at the bank she works at, and leaving town to give the money to her boyfriend. On the way, she stops at Bates Motel to stay the night. At the hotel, she meets…

In 1954, Alfred Hitchcock directed a film which was named Rear Window. In this movie the main characters were Lisa Carol Fremont, L.B. Jeff, and Detective Doyle. L.B. Jeff was played by James Stewart is a man who is confined to his apartment and his only view of the world in looking out his window in his apartment. Lisa Carol Fremont was played by Grace Kelly, she was a model who showed interest in Jeff, but could not get his attention. Detective lieutenant Doyle was played by Wendell Corey was…

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…

North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 thriller, features a handsome lead, a beautiful love interest, a charming villain, and exciting action scenes that led to it being called “the first James Bond film,” as noted by The Guardian’s John Peterson (Peterson). Even if it is one’s first time viewing the film, it is easy to pick up on moments that are obviously iconic, including the moving text in the opening credits, the crop duster attack, and of course the final scene on the face of Mount…