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Hitchcock’s Auteur Vision: “Rear Window”
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This 6 page paper discusses the film “Rear Window” as an example of Alfred Hitchcock’s status as an auteur director. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Hitchcock’s Techniques
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This 3-page paper examines Hitchcock’s use of mise-en-scene and editing in “North by Northwest” and “The Birds.”
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Hitchcock/Psycho & Shadow of a Doubt
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An 11 page research paper/essay that discusses these two films. Director Alfred Hitchcock’s film “Psycho” (1960) is generally acknowledged to be a masterpiece of the cinematic art. Interestingly, however, Hitchcock frequently stated that his personal favorite among his many films was “Shadow of a Doubt” (1943), in which a “debonair murderer of widows,” played by Joseph Cotton, has formulated a complete nihilistic theory of existence prior to settling in the little town of Santa Rosa, California (Denby 26). This examination of these two films demonstrates how Hitchcock’s legendary skill at manipulating and misdirecting his audience can be seen in the earlier film, as well as how this factor has matured and grown in subtlety and nuance by the time that “Psycho” was produced. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Hitchcock/Rear Window & North by Northwest
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A 4 page research paper that discusses 2 films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. A surface evaluation of the cinematography in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic films Rear Window and North By Northwest would be that there is little commonality between the two films. Rear Window is told entirely from the viewpoint of L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies, a professional photographer who is confined to his New York apartment with a broken leg, whereas North by Northwest follows Roger Thornhill in an action-packed story that takes him across the country. However, a closer examination of the two films reveals that in both movies, Hitchcock uses the camera as his storyteller in many instances, and the elements of cinematography complement the dialogue in revealing characterization and plot devices. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Hitchcock/Strangers On A Train
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A 5 page research paper/essay that contrasts and compares the characters of Guy and Bruno in this 1951 Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller. The writer argues that this contrast adds psychological depth to the film. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Hitchcock: Psycho, Vertigo, and Rear Window
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A 5 page paper which discusses themes and elements within Hitchcock's "Psycho," "Vertigo," and "Rear Window." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Hollywood and Non Hollywood Films
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This 5 page paper looks at the critical-theoretical opposition that some criticism sets up between some notion of 'Hollywood cinema' and notions of 'non-Hollywood cinema'. The paper considers the ideas of difference and similarities and includes consideration of the idea of first second and third cinema. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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Hollywood and the California Dream
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A 3 page paper which examines what established California as the film industry’s capital based on the article Hollywood and the California Dream by Lary May. No additional sources cited.
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Hollywood Blacklisting: The Hollywood Ten
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15 pages in length. Communism and American democracy do not make comfortable bedfellows. This enlightening discovery served as the basis for Senator Joseph McCarthy's quest to exile all Communist association from the United States in the 1950s. Central to this exacting extermination were the Hollywood Ten, a handful of movie makers who were suspected of having Communist ties. The sheer terror that permeated through Hollywood during this blacklist period was born of the ignorance of McCarthyism and the uncertainty of one's eventual status. However, as much fervor as there was in support of the blacklisted film makers, there was a subgroup of opposition that contended each of the ten men were nothing more than disloyal Stalin supporters. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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Hollywood Depiction: Cultural Consequences Of Negative Imagery
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5 pages in length. Hollywood has a well-earned reputation for embellishing upon reality to the point where the finished product only resembles the original idea around the edges. Indeed, Hollywood's penchant for taking poetic license is a tactic that has left audiences wondering just how much of a given film accurately depicts certain cultural images and how much is an extension of the writer's imagination. The extent to which film genre distorts the image of certain populations is both grand and far-reaching; that American teen movies such as Gummo and Clueless depict American teenagers in an extremely negative light speaks to the perpetuation of these stereotypes when the films are released worldwide. With no reason to doubt what they see upon the screen, foreigners who watch these types of movies ultimately form erroneous conclusions of American youth as being shallow, spoiled, disrespectful, unappreciative and basically without any true moral or ethical fiber. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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