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Alred Hitchcock
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
04/14/2014

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"Master of Suspense"
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
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Cameo
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Hitchcock appeared in 39 of his own films. These were short appearances.
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German Expressionism
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Captures the mood of suspense or horror. Hitchcock was strongly influenced by this.
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Soviet Montage
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Understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily on montage or editing. Hitchcock used this to pace his films appropriately.
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Kuleshov Effect
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An audience reacts not to a film’s elements but to their juxtaposition — the sequence of images suggests an emotion to them, and they project this onto the actors. Hitchcock used this mainly in Rear Window
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What year did Hitchcock move to America and start his career in Hollywood?
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1940
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Grace Kelly
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Hitchcock was infatuated with most of his actresses, Grace, in particular. He felt betrayed when she gave up film.
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Strangers on a Train
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1954--based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith of the same name
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Rear Window
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1954--based on a short story " It had to be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich
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Vertigo
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1958 --based on a French novel " From Among the Dead"
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Psycho
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1960--based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch
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Oedipal Situation
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The attraction of a boy to his mother, or a girl to her father.
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Bernard Herman
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The composer Hitchcock often used for his film scores, Psycho being the most famous. Hitchcock originally wanted the shower scene silent, without sound.
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