A Biography of Alfred Hitchcock

... many of his movies. "Fear? It has influenced my life and my career." (18) explains Hitchcock, he also had a fear of being alone and of darkness which once again appeared in many of ... it was not until three weeks later that the illustrious career of Alfred J. Hitchcock really took off. In February of 1927 The Lodger was released and it attracted mass audienc...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 20:58

... he was young and did something his father didn't approve of, he was forced to stay in a jail cell for ten minutes. Ever since that day he had had a phobia of police officers. At the age of ... heard of a paramount pictures branch called Players-Lasky opening in London. He immediately got an interview for a job, and due to his knowledge of filmmaking he was given a job...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 21:57

... the fact that Marion's death may have been a result of her crime with the introduction of Sam, Lila, and Arbogast. Hitchcock uses Arbogast's character to arouse suspicion within the audience. ... the audience's subjective participation and implicit character parallels. Psycho begins with a view of a city that is arbitrarily identified along with an exact date and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:10

... was an intimate friend of the Earl of Essex; Shakspere was an intimate friend of the Earl of Southampton, who was one of the most attached friends of that Earl of Essex. And a personal acquaintance ... two against 'one Edmond Spenser, gentleman', one against one Joan Ny Callaghan who is said to act 'by supportation and maintenance of Edmond Spenser, gentleman,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 06:20

... (St. Peter's gates?) closes behind him. Again, ironically, it is only then that Sebastian can reach Alicia's ‘dark world'—through death. The costumes that the characters wear is also a clue. ... dark images. When Alicia and Sebastian are alone together, it is usually in darkness.— implying safety in hiding, and also implying a different world. Alicia is safe and free to do...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 21:56

... called " ;a gem of a picture." The project was one that had been in mind for many years but was an on-again-off-again affair. Frenzy (1972) was the title, and it was clear that the master ... was hinged in part on her singing of the song "Que Sera Sera," an Academy Award winner, which was dramatically used at the climax of the film. Back at Warner Bros. in 1957, no...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:06

... him and his friends a pious fraud, the claim that a document existed that implicated Adams in crimi- nality. Adams was a political enemy, and he was far from a saint; he had been acc used of ... sh ort of cash for capital expenditures. Within a year, with his legislative salary and his earnings, he was saving money; small sums, but the start of an accumulation of capital...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 10:20

... Alfred Hitchcock Obituary Alfred Hitchcock, admired genius and master of film suspense, died of liver failure and heart problems on April 28, 1980 in Los Angeles, California. He was the ... daughter, Patricia. Hitchcock& apos;s first mark as a film director came in 1925 with The Pleasure Garden. It was a largely unimportant film, and was not recognized as being anything more t...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 21:55

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 21:55