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| Name: |
Alfred Hitchcock | | Birth Date: |
August 13, 1899 | | Death Date: |
April 29, 1980 | | Place of Birth: |
London, England | | Place of Death: |
Los Angeles, California | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
film director |
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 Biography of Alfred Hitchcock
504 words, approx. 2 pages
 Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), was a film director famous for skillfully wrought suspense thrillers. He was essentially concerned with depicting the tenuous relations between people and objects and rendering the terror inherent in commonplace realities.... summary from source:
 Biography of Alfred Hitchcock
6,859 words, approx. 23 pages
 "I am out to give the public good, healthy, mental shake-ups," the late great film director Alfred Hitchcock once said back in 1936. The quote is taken from Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews, a collection of interviews, essays,... 
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 Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
1,352 words, approx. 5 pages
Alfred Hitchcock ( 13 August 1899 - 29 April 1980 ) was a British film director and producer, closely associated with the suspense thriller genre. Contents 1 Sourced 2 Unsourced 3 Quotes about Hitchcock 4 External links // Sourced Some movies are...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Hitchcock, Sir Alfred
818 words, approx. 3 pages(born Aug. 13, 1899, London—died April 29, 1980, Bel Air, Calif., U.S.) English-born motion-picture director whose suspenseful films won immense popularity. The son of a London poultry dealer, Hitchcock attended St. Ignatius College, London, and... summary from source:
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred
133 words, approx. 1 pages(born Aug. 13, 1899, London, Eng.—died April 29, 1980, Bel Air, Calif., U.S.) British-born film director. He worked in the London office of a U.S. film company from 1920 and was promoted to director in 1925. His film The Lodger (1926) concerned... summary from source:
 Hitchcock, Alfred (1899-1980) Summary
2,288 words, approx. 8 pagesUniversally acknowledged as "The Master of Suspense," the British-born film director Alfred Hitchcock reached the zenith of his accomplishments within the American film industry, with a series of now classic psychological thrillers that... summary from source:
 Alfred Hitchcock Information
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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13 1899 – April 29 1980) was an iconic and highly influential British-born Anglo-American film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. He directed more...
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 World and I Hitchcock and the Censors.(Alfred Hitchcock)
08/01/1999: 2,820 words, approx. 9 pages Film director Alfred Hitchcock's skill at working around censorship issues is explored, along with the subtlety and mystery it lent to his works. Examples include scenes from 'Rebecca,' 'Rear Window,' 'Shadow of a Doubt,' and 'Psycho.' Through collaboration and clashes with Hollywood's Production... summary from source:
Film - Dienst Alfred-Hitchcock-Collection
12/01/2004: 773 words, approx. 3 pages Alfred-Hitchcock-Collection Box mit sechs DVDs: "Bei Anruf Mord", "Der falsche Mann", "Der unsichtbare Dritte", "Die rote Lola", "Ich beichte" und "Der Fremde im Zug" (Special Edition). Anbieter: Warner Home. Bestell-Nr. 5879685. Gesamtlänge: 626 Min. FSK: ab 12. Die einen träumen vom perfekten... summary from source:
 Investor's Business Daily Hitchcock Had Right Direction
3/9/2007: 1,126 words, approx. 4 pagesAlfred Hitchcock knew fear. Once, when he was 5 and created some mischief, his father sent him to the local police station with a note. After reading the note, a sergeant put the boy in a cell for a few agonizing moments.The policeman returned and... summary from source:
AP News `Amityville' director Rosenberg dies
3/19/2007: 328 words, approx. 1 pagesStuart Rosenberg, a prolific director of series television and theatrical films who partnered with Paul Newman on the widely popular prison drama "Cool Hand Luke" and several other movies, has died at 79.Rosenberg, who also directed "The Amityville Horror," died of a heart attack Thursday...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Thomas Hemmeter
4,161 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Hemmeter reviews the textual antecedents of Alfred Hitchcock's film Sabotage, proposing that the director used both the novel and play versions of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.
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Critical Essay by Robin Wood
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To trace the creative drives behind Hitchcock's films to sources in psychopathology (possible, after all, to some degree with any artist) does not necessarily invalidate the emphasis placed in my book on their therapeutic impulses: indeed, it could logically be felt to strengthen this emphasis by giving the therapeutic impulses a particular focus or motivation. I still feel that the Hitchcock films I most admire are centred on a movement towards health via therapy and catharsis. I have, however, beco... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John Russell Taylor
1,959 words, approx. 7 pages
Hitchcock's career to date falls neatly into four phases: the silent period (nine films); the 1930s in Britain (fourteen films); the 1940s in America and Britain (thirteen features and two shorts); and the period since then, beginning with Strangers on a Train (twelve films). To indulge in drastic oversimplification, these phases represent respectively: apprenticeship; the perfection of a style; appreciation of the limitations of that style and an erratic quest for a new style; and final maturity. (p...
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 92%Can Alfred Hitchcock Be Considered an Auteur?
1,778 words, approx. 6 pages
Through the following analysis of four Alfred Hitchcock films -- Psycho (1960), "The 39 Steps" (1935), "Rebecca" (1940), "Rear Window" (1954), and "Psycho" (1960) -- one can conclude that Hitchcock's use of trademark techniques in all four films qualify him as an auteur. These techniques include creating suspense; similar characters, such as an innocent victim wrongly accused or a strong woman left vulnerable; human psychology, particularly voyeurism; location, usual
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