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Character Perspectives in Hitchcock Films, 2006.
This paper illustrates Alfred Hitchcock's techniques of allowing the audience to be part of his films.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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The paper discusses how in the films "Psycho," "North By Northwest," and "Rear Window," Alfred Hitchcock uses the action of the camera to invite the audience to take part in the voyeuristic activities of the characters. In "Psycho" and in "Rear Window" Hitchcock invites the audience into very specific moments in which the main characters observe others in the films without their knowledge. The paper depicts how these voyeuristic moments were a trademark of Hitchcock films that provided a moment in time for the audience to be part of the film and view action that called the audience in as second party voyeurs lead by Hitchcock himself.
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Hitchcock's Influence on Other Films, 2002.
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the influence of director Alfred Hitchcock on other films.
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper examines many movies from the past decades and shows how Hitchcock concepts have influenced the content and style of various movies. It shows that not only suspense movies have been influenced by this style. Some movies examined are ?Monty Python and the Holy Grail,? Spielberg's ?Close Encounters of the Third Kind,? and the Scorsese film ?Cape Fear."
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"MacGuffin (n.) 1. In a film, a plot device whose sole purpose is to set the action in motion, such as a suitcase with unknown contents. Often, the MacGuffin turns out to be a decoy, causing men to make fools of themselves in pursuit of futile ends. Word origin: Coined by Alfred Hitchcock, 1939? (Enders). Hitchcock?s influence on filmmakers still exists today. For example, the recent movie ?Rat Race? uses a MacGuffin to set the entire movie action. The MacGuffin is the race; set up by the hotel owner that pits six groups of contestants against each other for $2 million dollars. "
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Expressionism in Hitchcock's Films, 2002.
Uses Alfred Hitchcock's film, "Shadow of a Doubt" to show his use of German Expressionism to explore the darker side of the human mind.
775 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, $ 30.95
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Hitchcock employs many of the thematic and cinematic elements of earlier film genres; in particular that of German Expressionism. This essay will argue that Hitchcock uses the Expressionist device of the doppelganger or double to delve into the darker areas of the human mind. The brilliance of Hitchcock's employment of this in "Shadow of a Doubt", it will be argued, lies in Hitchcock's realization that the monstrous is intimately linked and may in fact be produced by, normality.
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Alfred Hitchcock Films, 2002.
Analyzes three movies by Hollywood director, Alfred Hitchcock.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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An analysis of three movies of Alfred Hitchcock, and how he deviated from Hollywood norms. By understanding the use of German Expressionism and Documentary Realism in Hitchcock's films, we can see the Hollywood glamour of moviemaking he counteracts.
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Alfred Hitchcock: Auteur of his Films, 2000.
A look at how the fact that Hitchcock wrote and directed all his films helped shape his reputation as one of the greatest filmmakers ever.
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"While it may be debated for years to come if the term auteur belongs to Hitchcock, it will never be debated that he was a genius in his own right. And if being an auteur means that one exerts much control over his films, it is impossible to contradict the fact that Hitchcock, did indeed, show an unprecedented amount of control in each of his films. If the argument is to be sound, a closer examination of the meaning of auteur might be recognized.Hitchcock was a genius of film and art. His work was revolutionary and gave inspiration to many other filmmakers. His unwavering discipline of creating the best works proves him to be one of the best filmmakers in history. No doubt, his work will be debated and discussed for centuries to come. "
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Alfred Hitchcock Films, 1982.
This paper describes Alfred Hitchcock's cinematography style as combining the "montage" of Pudovikin and the fluid camera of Murnau.
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"Alfred Hitchcock was a British film director who emigrated to the United States in the late 1930s. He was noted for his films of suspense, beginning in the silent era and extending through the development of sound and into the television era. He was born in 1899 in London. His father was a poultry dealer and fruit importer. Hitchcock was educated at the Jesuits' Saint Ignatius College. He also attended the School of Engineering and Navigation at the University of London, where he studied mechanics, electricity, acoustics, and navigation. His first job was as an estimator for the Henley Telegraph Company; he was nineteen. In the evenings he studied art at the University of London and soon transferred to the advertising department of the electric cable manufacturer to design ads for cables. His interest in the growing film industry led to his submission of a ... "
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Hitchcock Films, 2001.
Audience identification with central characters in "Psycho" & "The Birds".
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"One key to Alfred Hitchcock's great success as a movie director is his ability to persuade the viewer to identify with the central characters of his films. Audience identification with the dangers experienced by characters in peril is the key to successful suspense. But Hitchcock sometimes convinced the audience to identify with characters whose fates did not provide the release that audiences usually feel when their hero saves her/himself (or is saved) from danger. In The Birds (1963) Melanie Daniels is all but destroyed by the unexplained attacks of wild birds and the film's ambiguous ending does not leave the spectator with much hope for her. In Psycho (1960), of course, "everything is done to encourage the spectator to identify with Marion Crane," just to see her spectacularly murdered only one third of the way through the movie (Wood 143). In both films.."
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Alfred Hitchcock on Film, 2006.
An analysis of the theme of spying within the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
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This paper analyzes three Hitchcock films: 39 Steps (1935), Rear Window (1954), and Psycho (1960)in relation to the theme of spying. Hitchcock uses governmental, moral, and immoral forms of spying that related the varying views of the characters that partake in espionage and intrigue. By understanding the basis for these types of spying, Hitchcock provides an interior, psychological view of human curiosity and the inevitable complexities of fantasy, murder, and social conscientiousness in a cinematic presentation.
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"In this film study, the theme of spying will be analyzed within the films of Alfred Hitchcock. In the films: 39 Steps (1935), Rear Window (1954), and Psycho (1960) one an realize the various aspects of spying that Hitchcock provides within his plot structure. governmental spying will be the focus of 39 Steps, while 'good' or moral spying will be the basis of analysis for Rear Window. Also, the premise of bad or immoral spying will brought forth in the thriller Psycho, as Hitchcock provides interior views of people and how they spy upon one another. In essence, the theme of spying will be analyzed within this study, providing details as to how Hitchcock uses clandestine points of view to provide a foundation for his cinematic plot structures."
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Thriller Films and Alfred Hitchcock, 2004.
A discussion and analysis of several of Alfred Hitchcock's spy thrillers.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 95.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes Alfred Hitchcock's spy thrillers, "Sabotage", "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "The Lady Vanishes" and "The 39 Steps", and identifies consistencies in the thriller genre.
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"According to Martin Rubin, the label thriller describes a cinematic and literary genre which has certain identifiable characteristics and which represents a quantitative as well as qualitative concept. Rubin suggests that virtually all narrative films could be considered thrilling to some degree because they contain suspense and action and a sense of departure from the routine world into a realm that is more marvelous and exciting. However, to be a cinematic thriller, a film must meet other conditions, such as the doubling..."
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Film Noir and Hitchcock, 2002.
An analysis of film noir motifs in Hitchcock's films.
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This paper will examine how, in this work, Hitchcock employs many of the stylistic elements of the genre that would later become known as film noir to reveal the darkness that is at the heart of the "American dream."
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Comparative Film and Perspectives on History, 2005.
Examines three movies ("The Best Years of Our Lives", "Seabiscuit" and "Malcolm X") to show how they have successfully and accurately portrayed events in history.
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The trouble with filmmakers using history as a genre to appeal to the mass audience is that most times the view of history is skewed to fit the status quo perception of the event. Fortunately filmmakers like Spike Lee, Gary Ross and William Wyler have brought it upon themselves to attempt to make movies that tell a history in the correct framework of historical context. This paper examines the three films: "The Best Years of Our Lives", "Seabiscuit" and "Malcolm X" to show how these filmmakers worked to bring the stories of historical events to light and used different film techniques to accomplish this feat.
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"Because for much of his racing career the horse was considered undersized and therefore the underdog, this movie is considered a feel good film for today's audience. The movie takes place during a time of the American economy at its worst, during and after the Depression. The movie effectively paints the picture of how bad things were for people by using a grey color scheme and grey urban settings. The only time the viewer sees color such as reds and browns are in the context of the rich or the businessman's home."
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Film Studies: Analyzing Three Films within the Context of South East and Asian Historical Perspectives, 2005.
The Chinese Communist Party soon came to power after years of exile and puppet rule that Pu Yi had experienced in the ever changing political and gove...
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The Chinese Communist Party soon came to power after years of exile and puppet rule that Pu Yi had experienced in the ever changing political and governmental landscapes of China. In 1950 Pu Yi was forced to leave his Soviet township and soon became a prisoner of the new Communist Party politics.
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Film Studies: Analyzing Three Films within the Context of South East and Asian Historical Perspectives Essay 1: Understanding the Premise of Vietnamese Communism within the Film: Full Metal Jacket The film Full Metal Jacket (1987), directed by Stanley Kubrick, offers an American point of view of a Vietnamese conflict that depended heavily on the communist (NLF) National Liberation Front. The communist resistance to American pressure to abdicate to the puppet regimes of older leaders, such as Ngo Dinh Diem, resulted in the NLF being called the "Viet Cong" or a "Democratic Dictatorship" within military and governmental propaganda. The reason for this is reflected in the film, as the Tet Offensive becomes the symbolic part of the movie where the Americans begin to lose the war, marking the American military's last real ground-based initiative to take the country. In this manner, a historical perspective of the NLF can be analyzed, but
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The Art Film and the Genre Film, 2004.
Art and genre criticism in four classic films.
3,048 words (approx. 12.2 pages), 48 sources, MLA, $ 89.95
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An analysis of two genre films and two art films - Antonioni's "Blow Up," Kelly/Donen's "Singin' in the Rain", Truffaut's "The 400 Blows", and Sirk's "All That Heaven Allows". The validity of both genre and art film criticism are examined.
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"By its failure to accommodate the excess generated by its subject matter, All That Heaven Allows is not only critiquing the genre of melodrama, it also exposes the contradictions and conflicts present in American bourgeois society (Bourget, 1995, 45). However the subversive excess and contradictions present in the film prevent it from being ?just another melodrama?. Sirk worked within yet against the constraints of the Hollywood studio system to subvert the genre, and although the film is superficially a generic 1950s Hollywood melodrama, Sirk?s characteristic stylistic technique marks him as an auteur, a position usually associated with the art rather than the genre film."
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Seventies Films Versus Today's Films, 2001.
A comparison between films from different periods in time, and the differences in their entertainment methods.
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A comparison of three honored films from the seventies, "Easy Rider", "Five Easy Pieces", and "The Godfather" and two films from the the year 2000, "The Gladiator" and "Erin Brokovich". The paper considers how they differ in the realm of providing distracting entertainment versus probing consideration of timely issues, concluding that seventies films left a more lasting vision.
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"What do we want from our movies? Do we seek simple escape or deeper understanding of our lives? Can a movie be both probing and entertaining? Are entertainment, eye candy and special effects enough, or do we seek something deeper? Do we want to look inside ourselves and ask questions, or to merely stay on the surface, distract ourselves, and deny that there is anything more to be considered? These questions arise when comparing three movies from the 1970s with two films nominated for Academy Awards in the 2000. The films considered are: from the seventies, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, and The Godfather, and from 2000, Gladiator and, Erin Brokovich. Pauline Kael, the well-know New Yorker film critic, commenting on how she got hooked on films, agrees another critic, Paul Coates, that in its ideal form, ?Cinema is the dream of an afterlife from which to comprehend this one? (Kael 63). In light of this quote, the films from the seventies embody elements which through the focused vision of the director offer mythic qualities that provide not only entertainment but an opportunity for viewers to examine their lives. That in accomplishing this, they provide images that remain in the mind?s eye could be considered the tradition of the seventies. In contrast, recent films Gladiator and Erin Brokovich are entertaining distractions, providing no lasting vision."
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The Film "Pretty Woman": A Sociological Perspective, 2001.
This paper reviews the popular movie ?Pretty Woman? and relates the movie to sociology concepts, such as social influence, social norms and stereotypes.
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The paper states that the two main male (Edward) and female (Vivian) characters come from different cultures; but, as people are not that different, they simply react to social norms differently. The author feels that the entire movie?s concept is built around the dilemma of coupling someone who is used to conforming to the norms of polite society with someone who is totally clueless when it comes to these norms. The paper presents examples from the film that demonstrate the sociological principles.
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"Julia Roberts? character in ?Pretty Woman,? Vivian, the prostitute, strongly exhibits individualization. She is her own person, acting as she pleases, without worrying about what society thinks of her. Societal norms don?t affect her. Edward, Richard Gere?s character, however, is different. He is a rich man who has been brought up in the aristocracy and has learned societal norms. He adheres to these norms strongly. He is embarrassed by others around him who do not conform to the norms of ?polite society.?"
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