What about Titanic and its epic disaster shots, and its financial success-What about Citizen Kane and its closed ceiling, camera work, long and deep camera angles, hidden microphones, insightful editing, innovative dialogue, and its money loss?

PROJECT: Prove that an economic success or technological change makes the greatest innovative film. Some films paradoxically can be both innovative and brilliantly marketed. Hitchcock’s Psycho is such a film. Hitchcock cleverly used a TV crew to save money. Audiences familiar with TV films didn’t give it a second thought and warmed to it like […]

Discuss how two of the films compare in their treatment of one of the following typical “thematics” favored by Hitchcock: -Marriage -The Criminal Female -Desire

Discuss how two of the films compare in their treatment of one of the following typical “thematics” favored by Hitchcock: -Marriage -The Criminal Female -Desire Please organize your paper as an argument. Be sure to refer to formal strategies used by Hitchcock to cultivate the spectator’s sympathy or sense of identification with the characters as […]