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    of birds from the film Psycho Psycho (Paramount Pictures 1960) is Alfred Hitchcock’s introduction in what would begin horror films to come. After Psycho came out‚ Psycho set a new level of acceptability of violence‚ deviant behavior and sexuality in American films. Critical symbolisms of birds between Marian Crane (Janet Leigh) and Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) foreshadowed tension between the two throughout the film. Alfred Hitchcock’s horror film‚ Psycho‚ opens tentatively in a seedy motel

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    conventions to achieve their intended purpose. To emphasis the timeless nature of crime fiction we can take a look at two film texts that exemplify how older texts can still entertain modern audiences as much as today’s fast-paced modern texts do. Alfred Hitchcock’s film

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    possibly all time. It is directed film by one of the great founding films for the horror Alfred Hitchcock. The movie was based on a novel by Daphne DuMaurier‚ I think this is a extraordinary‚ exceptional film because it does everything a suspense film should have‚ and Hitchcock went beyond. I am proceed to examined special effects such as lighting‚ color and camera techniques. Throughout the movie‚ The Birds‚ Hitchcock was very impressive in his dramatic techniques because of the tension it built in various

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    Haunted High Analysis

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    On October 27‚ I had driver’s education until six o’clock. I figured that because I was already at Stevenson‚ I should just stay for Haunted High. I could use it for a cultural event or extra credit and I knew of a few friends who were attending. I have absolutely no idea why I possibly thought this could end in such a way that I wasn’t completely terrified. I hate horror movies‚ haunted houses‚ and generally anything scary. Prior to Haunted High‚ I had only seen one horror movie‚ House at the End

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    On October 27‚ I had driver’s education until six o’clock. I figured that because I was already at Stevenson‚ I should just stay for Haunted High. I could use it for a cultural event or extra credit and I knew of a few friends who were attending. I have absolutely no idea why I possibly thought this could end in such a way that I wasn’t completely terrified. I hate horror movies‚ haunted houses‚ and generally anything scary. Prior to Haunted High‚ I had only seen one horror movie‚ House at the End

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    film journal 1

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    Film Journal #1 1. How does Hitchcock introduce us to the two principle characters? Where do the scenes take place and how is the camera placed? In the case of Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman)‚ her father’s prison sentence leaves her skeptical of others‚ yet longing for a new companion in her life. She has a reliance on alcohol to wash her troubles away. R. Devlin’s (Cary Grant) a stranger from the party‚ a very mystery man. The Party takes place at Miami‚ FL. The camera pans right across Cary

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    Although Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller “Psycho” was only created in the early 1960s‚ his ability to express the psychological battle between good and evil in cinema makes this masterpiece one of the greatest films of all time. With very precise costume design and suspenseful sound‚ Hitchcock is able to show his audience how the mind can be a weapon to any man or woman who uses it with negative intention. Tim Durks of AMC FilmSite.org wrote that “Hitchcock’s techniques voyeuristically implicate the

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    Stephen King sets up the perfect horror scene in room 217 by buliding off of Hitchcock and hos own previous work‚ Salem’s Lot. King uses Hitchcock’s definition of great horror to set for the scene in romm 217. He also uses background from his old work‚ Salems Lot. Alfred Hitchcock’s idea of horror involves human suspense and the realistic aspect of scary situations. Hitchcocks masterful directing leads the audience to be the frist to understand what is going on. The characters are left in

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    Spellbound & Freud

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    Spellbound & Freud Sigmund Freud was the originator of psychoanalysis. Some of the broad ideas of Freud’s psychoanalysis are used in the Hitchcock film Spellbound. Among them are the unconscious‚ Id‚ Ego‚ and Dream Analysis. The mind is broken up into two parts the conscious‚ the processes that one is aware of and the unconscious‚ processes that one is not aware of. The Id mainly resides in the unconscious mind; it desires to satisfy basic wants and needs and is present at birth. Ego develops slowly

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    Film Auteurs

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    Directoral 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

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