Alfred Hitchcock

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Discussion of the filmmaker as "auteur." His involvement as a writer as well as director in his movies. His consideration of screenwriting as the formation for the structure and visuals of a film. Elements of the " Hitchcock Touch." The melodramatic, suspense movies. His use of the " MacGuffin." His British films. His Hollywood films.

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"ALFRED HITCHCOCK- WRITER

Movie buffs know Alfred Hitchcock, of course, mostly for his American films- Rebecca , North by Northwest , The Birds , Marnie , Vertigo , and The Man Who Knew Too Much (among others). But, what really sets Hitchcock apart - beginning with his earliest films done in England prior to World War II, is the fact that he was as much a writer as a director, even if the screenplay was actually written by someone else.

Although one aspect of Alfred Hitchcock's rhetoric drastically privileged the image over the word, he also insisted that it was during the screenwriting that his most serious work was done. He defined the screenwriting process as the space where all fundamental directorial decisions have already been made; he did not think of "writing" apart from the work he planned for the ..."

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