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Alfred Hitchcock School Library
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Example Of Hitchcock Extraordinary Circumstances Hannay
1,229 wordsOrdinary people in extraordinary circumstances, this is the basis for many films. Society is wholeheartedly wrapped up in their lives so that to come to a dark theater for an hour or two is the closest thing to adventure or excitement that most individuals will incur. We long so terribly for an outlet to our sometimes dismal routines that our on screen relationships are enough to satisfy many of our desires. Alfred Hitchcock understood this desire and nourished on many occasions. Hitchcock's int...
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Brevet Major George Marching With Sherman Shermans
1,266 words... ood into Tennessee after the sacking of Atlanta. In a special field order he tells why. General Hood led his army successfully far over towards Mississippi in hopes to decoy us out of Georgia. But we were not thus to be led away by him, and preferred to lead and control events ourselves. General Thomas and Schofield, commanding departments to our rear retuned to their posts and prepared to decoy General Hood into their meshes, whilst we came on to complete the original journey. (Thorndike, 2...
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698 wordsAlfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art filmmaking with great audience popularity. Throughout his career, he gave his audiences more pleasure than they could bask for. The consistency of quality plot lines and technical ingenuity earned him the recognition of being one of the greatest filmmakers of all-time. His films earned him the reputation of being the "master of suspense", and after viewing two of his more popular films, Psycho and The Birds, ...
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39 Steps And North By Northwest
2,510 words39 Steps and North by Northwest Many people share the same point of view: spy movies belong to genre that has an integral right for existence. Sticky atmosphere of suspense make your blood still and chill you to the bone The genre is a mere adrenaline pumping. Why do people continue watching Hitchcock's spy movies? What power forces them to hold their breath trying to guess what will happen next? People watch movies belonging to this genre to take a rest from sweet and dull reality, to get a por...
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Loss Of Identity End Of The Film
1,598 wordsThe Films of Alfred Hitchcock Psycho (1960) Psycho is one of the most famous Hitchcock's thrillers. The film is widely recognized by film critics as the etalon of the genre. Psycho has become almost the synonym to the definition of suspense. What is suspense? Suspense is synonymous to anxiousness, delay, let-up. Suspended (Latin) to hang. In such a way, suspense can be interpreted as a certain hung up suspended condition. According to Frances Truffle, it is an intensification of suspended expect...
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1,606 words... looks cheap not only by the plot but also by price. However, it doesnt look like other attempts to imitate the film. Alfred Hitchcock brings into the film a light vein of black humor. Moreover, the slightest gradations of the black humor are discovered when you re-view the film. No doubt, it is the film made by maestro, the incredibly talented producer. Alfred Hitchcock made this film with the purpose of technical joke: he wanted to know what will be the reaction of the public, if he kills t...
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Critical Point Of View Alfred Hitchcock
1,044 wordsTheater 12 / Film as Art 1. Art analysts consider Casablanca to be the most classic romantic melodrama of the last century. Being a masterful tale of two men struggling and vying for a woman in the familiar love triangle, the film itself constitutes peculiar interest in terms of its appearance and approach to cinematography. Casablanca became one of the first films that depicted contemporary context, since the scenario of political and romantic espionage was opposed to conflict between two world...
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North By Northwest University Of London
1,814 wordsAlfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art filmmaking with great audience popularity. Throughout his career, he gave his audiences more pleasure than they could bask for. The consistency of quality plot lines and technical ingenuity earned him the recognition of being one of the greatest filmmakers of all-time. His films earned him the reputation of being the "master of suspense", and after viewing two of his more popular films, Psych...
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Strangers On A Train By Alfred Hitchcock
1,697 wordsStrangers on a Train by Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock's 37 th film, Strangers on a Train, can be held for the classical "thriller" for many reasons: the plot evolves around murder, blackmailing, and subtle sexuality. But being based on a rather complicated structure, full of symbolism and intention, it extends the concept to a much more complex and intelligent level. Emphasizing on the duality of human nature, Hitchcock assembles most of the events and characters of the picture around the no...
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North By Northwest Alfred Hitchcock
1,330 wordsDirectory Auteurism of Frederico Fellini, Satyajit Ray, and Alfred Hitchcock Auteurism is a term first coined by Francois Truffaut to describe the mark of a film director on his films. A director can be considered an auteur if about five of his film depict a certain style that is definitely his own. In other words, much like one can look at a painting and tell if it is a Monet, a Renoir, or a Degas, if a film director is an auteur, one can look at his film and tell by style and recurring themes ...
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One Of The First Alfred Hitchcock
2,120 wordsAlfred Hitchcock is one of the most well known directors of all time bringing murder and mystery to a new light. His films, starting in 1925 with The Pleasure Garden and ending in 1976 with the film Family Plot, set a precedent for all other directors in the film industry. Many story lines and techniques within the cinematography of Hitchcock are common standards for films of today. However, Hitchcock did not start out as a brilliant director, but instead started from the very bottom of the busi...
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2,026 wordsSpike Lee, Kevin Smith And Alfred Hitchcock Spike Lee, Kevin Smith And Alfred Hitchcock As Film Auteurs In the film industry, there are directors who merely take someone elses vision and express it in their own way on film, then there are those who take their own visions and use any means necessary to express their visions on film. The latter of these two types of directors are called auteurs. Not only do auteurs write the scripts from elements that they know and love in life, but they direct, p...
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1,318 wordsAn Analysis of the Opening Sequence from Alfred Hitchcock? s Just like a building, a film needs a strong foundation in order to be successful, a foundation which is made up of the starting moments of the film. In Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock successfully uses the opening credit sequence to establish a foundation on which to build an interesting plot, including techniques to elicit involvement by the spectator, and the suggestion of a Psycho theme. A musical composition consisting of quick strokes on...
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Hitchcock Birds Language Film
426 wordsThe Birds by Alfred Hitchcock is a stunning is a drama where the majority of the film is taken up by panoramic shots of the birds flying over Bodega Bay. When the birds are gathering planning to attack there is no music; there is also very little conversation, save the screams of the victims. These anguished howls and the caw of the birds seem to blend harmoniously to create a paralyzing cacophony of sounds that express terror far better than mere words could have. In the final scene there is th...
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End Of The 1930 Sherlock Holmes
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True Intentions General Sherman
2,454 wordsSherman s March In November of 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman cut a 300 -mile long, 60 -mile wide corridor of destruction across the Confederate State of Georgia. He burned every thing in his path. He torched plantations, bridges, crops, factories, and mills. The goal of this war of attrition was to stop the heart of the Confederacy. By all accounts this campaign was very successful. Sherman s campaign raised many questions. First, what did Sherman think off his march? Did he see i...
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Crop Duster Scene Scene Creates Suspense Thornhill
655 wordsThe mise en scene plays and important role in the setup of the mood the director wants to create. Alfred Hitchcock obviously knew this idea and implemented it into the making of his films. In the first few moments of the crop-duster scene in North by Northwest the position in which the characters and set are portrayed on the screen creates suspense. The very first view shown of the set of the crop-duster scene creates suspense simply by having contrast to all of the previous settings. The set in...
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