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Alfred Hitchcock
Director as
Auteur
Bio Basics
B. 1899,
Leytonstone
England
Long career in
silent films
(Britain)
Moved to
Hollywood in
1940
Made lots of
movies
Early Years
Began illustrating
title cards for
silent films
Learned editing,
art production
and scripting
Made The
Pleasure Garden
(1925) His First
film
Early Years
The Lodger (1926) introduced
classic scenario of an
innocent, unjustly accused,
then caught in a web of
intrigue
Blackmail & Murder (1929)
introduced connections
between sex and violence
Hitch Heads for
Hollywood
Rebecca (1940) introduces
another theme: woman losing
her identity
Lots of experimentation with
Hollywood money
Auteur Theory in America
Lifeboat (1941) Takes place in
a boat
Films and Concepts
Rope (48): the
perfect murder
Spellbound
(44):
Psychoanalysis
-- Dali dream
sequence
Psycho (60)
voyeurism
More
The Birds (63):
Manifestation
of evil is
naturally
occurring
Rear Window
(54) Genre
blending/voyeu
rism/ viewing
Quotes
"Always make the audience
suffer as much as possible"
"The length of a film should be
directly related to the endurance
of the human bladder"
Quotes
"Some of our most exquisite
murders have been domestic,
performed with tenderness in
simple, homey places like the
kitchen table”
"There is no terror in the bang,
only in the anticipation of it."
Innovations
Unique camera
placements/movements
Suspense over surprise/ Use
of dramatic irony
The MacGuffin
Gallows Humor
Examinations of sexuality,
violence, neuroses
Themes
Moral dubiousness…in particular regarding the
camera and voyeurism
Transference of guilt from guilty to innocents
Deceptiveness of Appearance
Unclear demarcation of good/evil
The institution of marriage
Sexually or tabooed areas assume central
places
The Doppleganger
Stylistic Consistencies
Expressive editing
Creative/challenging camera
angles
Shifting modes of
narration/deliberate omniscient
moments used for creation of
suspense
Works Cited
Rohmer, Eric and Claude Chabrol,
Hitchcock: The First Forty-four Films
(New York: Ungar, 1979)
Sarris, Andrew, The American Cinema:
Directors and Directions:1929-1968
(New York:Da Capo Press, 1996)
Fabe, Marilyn, Closely Watched Films: An
Introduction to the Art of Narrative
Technique (University of California Press,
Berkley, 2004)
Buckland, Warren, Film Studies (Hodder
Educational Press, London, 1998)