Psycho Research Analysis Essay
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In the world of cinema, there’s almost always a discussion regarding what scenes would be suitable for the grasping imagination of any audience, young or old. Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film, Psycho, sparked a plug for the movie industry as it was the first movie of its kind to display such graphic scenes of sex and violence to a worldwide audience.
In the article, “Psycho at Fifty: Pure Cinema or Invitation to an Orgy?” by John A. Bertolini, he describes how the images and scenes throughout the whole movie and its more arguable parts are what made the film stick with the imagination of Hitchcock’s audience. He goes on to give an explanation of how Hitchcock is as well one of few directors who is able to mix a little humor to go along with his vicious plot. Bertolini speculates that the audience was thrown off by savagery depicted in this film and more concerned with the emotions that were created by Hitchcock’s movie. He also outlines how much controversy the film created Psycho by stating how it, “reflected the changes at work in the larger society, especially the increasing insiste...
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how alfred hitchcock's 1960 film, psycho, sparked a plug for the movie industry as it was the first movie of its kind to display such graphic scenes.
- Analyzes how bertolini's article, "psycho at fifty: pure cinema or invitation to an orgy?" describes how the film stuck with the imagination of hitchcock’s audience.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's use of murder and brute force in psycho captivated the audience. he wanted to render his graphic and violent plot to the world during the black and white era to “guarantee of it’s unrelieved realism.”
- Analyzes how alfred hitchcock's 1960 film, psycho, sparked a plug for the movie industry as it was the first movie of its kind to display such graphic scenes.
- Analyzes how bertolini's article, "psycho at fifty: pure cinema or invitation to an orgy?" describes how the film stuck with the imagination of hitchcock’s audience.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's use of murder and brute force in psycho captivated the audience. he wanted to render his graphic and violent plot to the world during the black and white era to “guarantee of it’s unrelieved realism.”
- Analyzes how bertolini's article explained how themes in this film were meant to show the everlasting battle between the good and evil within ourselves, that connect with everyone.
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- Analyzes how psycho changed hollywood's perception of the horror film as did psycho. alfred hitchcock indulged in nudity, bloodbaths, necrophilia, transvestism, schizophrenia, and a host of other taboos.
- Analyzes how the great director clouded his intent and motives by stating that the entire film was nothing more than one huge joke.
- Opines that psycho is hitchcock's most gruesome and dark film, inspired by the life of the demented, cannibalistic wisconsin killer ed gein.
- Analyzes how psycho changed hollywood's perception of the horror film as did psycho. alfred hitchcock indulged in nudity, bloodbaths, necrophilia, transvestism, schizophrenia, and a host of other taboos.
- Analyzes how the great director clouded his intent and motives by stating that the entire film was nothing more than one huge joke.
- Opines that psycho is hitchcock's most gruesome and dark film, inspired by the life of the demented, cannibalistic wisconsin killer ed gein.
- Analyzes how bernard herrmann's chilling score enhances the fright of the film.
- Analyzes how hitchcock shocked paramount when he demanded that the filmmaker film the sleazy, sensational novel that robert bloch based on the gein killings. the filmmaker kept after the studio's front office until the executives relented.
- Analyzes how hitchcock accepted the budget restrictions and went ahead with the film, utilizing television technical people, who were less expensive than standard hollywood crews.
- Describes how hitchcock met with joseph stefano after rejecting james cavanaugh's adaptation of the bloch novel.
- Analyzes how stefano told hitchcock that he couldn't work up sympathy for a peeping tom killer in his forties. the director suggested perkins get the lead role.
- Describes how hitchcock convinced paramount that his special editor, george tomasini, should be included in the production of psycho.
- Analyzes how the director's penchant for detail was in full force in the bates motel. the mansion cost only $15,000 to construct and technicians cannibalized several other stock buildings to keep costs down.
- Explains that perkins, then twenty-seven, was hired without the actor reading the script and was taken aboard because hitchcock thought him right for the role of norman bates and because he would cost little.
- Explains that hitchcock was interested in using shirley jones, but her salary would have been too high. instead, he chose leigh, who was more of a starlet.
- Analyzes how hitchcock achieves audience sympathy by showing perkins's norman as sensitive and oddly compelling, leading viewers to believe that his unseen mother is the culprit.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's attempt to set up viewers for the surprise ending backfired when he was deluged with wires and letters from actresses asking to be considered.
- Analyzes how hitchcock used a sunken-faced, ossified corpse for offbeat pranks on leigh, who became one of his favorite performers.
- Analyzes how the film's male lead, gavin, makes less of an impression on viewers than the shower scene. hitchcock considered stuart whitman, tom tryon, brian keith, cliff robertson, jack lord, robert loggia, and rod taylor for the role.
- Analyzes how hitchcock approved of every little detail in the famous shower scene and demonstrated every move the killer and victim were to make. perkins even showed him how he was to wrap the body
- Explains that perkins was not present for the filming of leigh's murder, but was in new york rehearsing for a play when the shower scene was filmed.
- Opines that hitchcock ordered this murder shown as a brutal thing, scribbling in his own hand for shot 116: 'the slashing'.
- Analyzes how hitchcock depicts the bloody realities of violent murder through lightning cuts between leigh and closeups of the knife striking her body (she is stabbed at least a dozen times).
- Analyzes how hitchcock uses inventive techniques to show the spray coming directly out of the shower nozzle.
- Analyzes how hitchcock shot the shower scene from a tower above the set, employing one cameraman. he had abandoned the use of technicolor, so as not to make the film more gory.
- Explains that leigh performed the rest of the shower scene herself, though she was concerned about displaying her bosom, even before technicians in a closed set. they researched various transparent garments worn by strippers but didn't come up with anything that would work.
- Narrates how a technician came up with an answer, flesh-colored moleskin, but during shooting hot water from the shower undermined this solution.
- Analyzes how hitchcock turned promotion minded with psycho, devising the entire publicity campaign for his gruesome masterpiece. he demanded that no moviegoer be seated during the showing of the film.
- Opines that hitchcock's response was to say that he had fun with the film.
- Explains that hitchcock's philosophy of the mystery-horror genre was to provide the public with beneficial shocks. the only way to remove the numbness and revive our moral equilibrium is through a movie.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's psycho broke all box-office records and made him a master of the modern horror film and fabulously wealthy.
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- Explains that childhood abuse is an undeniable factor in many of serial killers' backgrounds.
- Explains that hollywood writers go after serial killers like ted bundy for their gruesome and bewildering stories and create a stereotype of them. they cover their faces with masks and stalk their prey.
- Explains that many psychologists and criminal analysts have theories that could contribute to the creation of serial killers, including biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors.
- Explains that childhood abuse is an undeniable factor in many of serial killers' backgrounds.
- Explains that hollywood writers go after serial killers like ted bundy for their gruesome and bewildering stories and create a stereotype of them. they cover their faces with masks and stalk their prey.
- Explains that many psychologists and criminal analysts have theories that could contribute to the creation of serial killers, including biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors.
- Analyzes how norman bates is a vicious killer in alfred hitchcock's "slasher" movie, psycho.
- Argues that the brain plays an interesting role in the creation of a serial killer. the minnesota twin study leaves open the possibility that psychopathic traits are largely genetically determined.
- Explains that many killers are labeled with antisocial personality disorder, which stems from rejection early on in their upbringing.
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- Explains that social psychology is the study of how the conscious and unconscious mind interacts to influence our behaviors, emotions, and thought processes.
- Analyzes the similarities and differences between the views represented by of meditations and the concepts of modern day social psychology.
- Analyzes how the strength of in-group identification helps agents adopt the proto-typical opinion of their own group. marcus emphasizes that one should not fault others for their flaws.
- Explains that social psychology is the study of how the conscious and unconscious mind interacts to influence our behaviors, emotions, and thought processes.
- Analyzes the similarities and differences between the views represented by of meditations and the concepts of modern day social psychology.
- Analyzes how the strength of in-group identification helps agents adopt the proto-typical opinion of their own group. marcus emphasizes that one should not fault others for their flaws.
- Explains that meditations and social psychology allow us an understanding that even with the actual presence of peers, the individual is still fully capable of violating the norms in order to broaden their perspectives. marcus aurelius attempts to explain that we all have the option of going above and beyond the expectations of others.
- Analyzes how macy and tsvetkova relay that social mechanisms drive us to return kind deeds. the implied presence refers to our own consciousness as individuals are traditionally taught to be kind.
- Explains that social psychology emphasizes the importance of self-schemas, being how individuals perceive themselves.
- Explains that marcus aurelius discusses the mind, breath, and body in book twelve.
- Analyzes how marcus aurelius' book meditations explains how peer pressure and family relations influence individuals into making certain decisions and acting in a way that suits others.
- Opines that the biggest relation between meditations and social psychology would be the perceptions of oneself given different circumstances and how we behave in the company of others.
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- Explains that alfred hitchcock's films have influenced many great directors today, and inspired the spin off television series bates motel.
- Opines that hitchcock developed detrimental anxiety from being locked up in a police cell at the tender age of five.
- Analyzes how hitchcock traces a life of obsession with unattainable beautiful women, sadistic cruelty, and inexplicable marital celibacy. such intense scenes were not common in this time.
- Explains that alfred hitchcock's films have influenced many great directors today, and inspired the spin off television series bates motel.
- Opines that hitchcock developed detrimental anxiety from being locked up in a police cell at the tender age of five.
- Analyzes how hitchcock traces a life of obsession with unattainable beautiful women, sadistic cruelty, and inexplicable marital celibacy. such intense scenes were not common in this time.
- Analyzes how hitchcock uses the role played by his mother in his life and translates that relationship to several relationships between mother and son in the award winning film psycho.
- Analyzes how hitchcock molded the entire movie around the infamous shower scene in psycho. he was feeling rejection or disinterest with various leading ladies. in frenzy, he lets his inner demons loose.
- Analyzes hitchcock's strange fixation on his mother in the film vertigo starring jimmy stewart, which was labeled an "orphic tragedy."
- Analyzes how scottie is obsessed with the "perfect woman" and attempts to recreate his image of female sensuality. his desolate lifestyle as a child is likely connected to his infatuation.
- Analyzes how francois truffaut and tippi hendren discuss hitchcock's controlling tendencies and sexual frustrations in "the 39 steps and the lodger."
- Analyzes how hitchcock's paralyzing fear of police was evident in his films. he was so fearful that he never had a driver’s license.
- Opines that hitchcock's character of marnie is the ultimate personification of his life. he was a prisoner in his own mind and relieved his inner demons by creating films.
1806 wordsRead More - Alfred Hitchcock Psychology Essayanalytical essayWhile Alfred Hitchcock is most well known for causing his audiences to feel fear, there is more to his movies then that. The themes of inadequateness of the police, control of all details in his films, and long stretches of no dialogue are prevalent in several of his films. He does not just happen to do these things by chance, but they are all related to things that happened to him during his childhood and his early career. No one can escape their past and not let it influence at least part of their life, and Alfred Hitchcock was no exception.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the police are portrayed in almost every one of hitchcock's films, such as frenzy, to catch a thief, and the 39 steps.
- Analyzes how hanney is able to reveal the real murderer and to clear his name. in to catch a thief, john robie, played by cary grant, is accused of revitalizing his old robbing ways.
- Explains that alfred hitchcock was born and raised a catholic, but he did not continue to practice his faith in his adult life. the jesuits had an effect on him and his filming methodology.
- Analyzes how the police are portrayed in almost every one of hitchcock's films, such as frenzy, to catch a thief, and the 39 steps.
- Analyzes how hanney is able to reveal the real murderer and to clear his name. in to catch a thief, john robie, played by cary grant, is accused of revitalizing his old robbing ways.
- Explains that alfred hitchcock was born and raised a catholic, but he did not continue to practice his faith in his adult life. the jesuits had an effect on him and his filming methodology.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's early career involved him working on silent films. he learned how to continue action and keep the audience interested without dialogue.
- Analyzes the themes of inadequateness of the police, control of all details, and long stretches of no dialogue in alfred hitchcock's films.
- Explains that alfred hitchcock is the master of suspense and is known for inciting fear in the hearts of his audience. the inadequateness of the police, control of all details, and long stretches of no dialogue all portrayed in his films are all directly correlated to his early life.
- Opines that hitchcock's the birds was his vision of judgment day, something he would have learned about in his catholic education.
1347 wordsRead More - Psychoanalytical essay1. What John Fawell is essentially saying is that although the common assumption of Hitchcock is that he is staunchly misogynistic—and often when one says this, the movies Psycho and Frenzy are cited for their scenes of female-oriented violence—he actually, in his majority of films, expresses empathy and compassion towards women, while giving a “sharp critique of the male psyche”. He goes even further, to convey the point that the notorious scenes from the two aforementioned movies may have jaded us all to the facts that he isn’t really that misogynistic after all.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how jeff's objectification of the women he is watching intensifies his inherent voyeurism, which exists simply by us being movie watchers.
- Analyzes how jeff's view on marriage seems skewed from what one traditionally feels about it; he feels men lose their happiness in marriage, his view that women only want to get married, and his recurring rejections of lisa all allude to the fact that jeff knows marriage by another name.
- Opines that jeff's inadequacy may be more pronounced than most people walking the planet are in some way sexually dysfunctional.
- Analyzes how jeff's objectification of the women he is watching intensifies his inherent voyeurism, which exists simply by us being movie watchers.
- Analyzes how jeff's view on marriage seems skewed from what one traditionally feels about it; he feels men lose their happiness in marriage, his view that women only want to get married, and his recurring rejections of lisa all allude to the fact that jeff knows marriage by another name.
- Opines that jeff's inadequacy may be more pronounced than most people walking the planet are in some way sexually dysfunctional.
- Analyzes how lisa and jeff seemed to be at ends with each other throughout the film. lisa tries subtle tricks to get jeff to respond to her, but he stampedes through them.
- Analyzes how john fawell expresses empathy and compassion towards women, while criticizing the male psyche in psycho and frenzy.
- Analyzes hitchcock's outlandish quotes to further his reputation of being a "woman-hater" and at the same time more notable director.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's rear window is unlike other movies. lisa and stella sweep around jeff, cleaning and cooking, and helping him move. jeff associates with sex and violence throughout the film.
1842 wordsRead More - Sexual Innuendoes in the Films of Alfred Hitchcockanalytical essayWhen watching an Alfred Hitchcock movie, have you ever found yourself sympathizing with a deceptive seductress or a soon-to-be sex offender? If so, you may have felt guilt from watching such sexual innuendoes, but don’t feel too bad. This is just one of the intents of Alfred Hitchcock as he weaves many of his tales with sensual characters. His films portray a vast array of sexuality from showing a battle of the sexes and tales of romance to showing homosexuals and sex offenders. Overall, the films of Alfred Hitchcock portray varying degrees of sexuality, which is manifested both romantically and perversely. The sexuality is one of the aspects of Hitchcock's films that adds intrigue and plot twists to his films.
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- Analyzes how hitchcock adds a softer, women's view to the usual thrilling movie by working with director selznick.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's north by northwest shows sexuality, deceit and irony in eve kendall and roger thornhill.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's films combine deceit, sexual intrigue, and violence to capture the audience.
- Analyzes how hitchcock adds a softer, women's view to the usual thrilling movie by working with director selznick.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's north by northwest shows sexuality, deceit and irony in eve kendall and roger thornhill.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's films combine deceit, sexual intrigue, and violence to capture the audience.
- States that hurley, neil p., soul in suspense: hitchcock’s fright and delight, new jersey: the scarecrow press, 1993.
- States silet, charles l. p., "alfred hitchcock and the making of a film culture." mysterynet.
- Analyzes how alfred hitchcock's films portray varying degrees of sexuality, which is manifested both romantically and perversely.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's metaskepticism is a form of sexuality combined with irony. the deceitful male character is attractive and aggressive at the same time.
- Analyzes how hitchcock shows love transcending in the culmination of north by northwest, despite thornhill's sinfulness.
- Analyzes how hitchcock uses distinct symbols, such as the eye and the knife, in psycho that link to sex.
3468 wordsRead More - Suspense In Alfred Hitchcock's Film Psychoexplanatory essayThe shocking twisted ending in film Psycho (1960) was a most successful Hitchcock’s mystery. Owing to such unexpected finish, the film made a powerful impact on the audience. The whole movie was a build up of suspense with mystery resolution. The suspense is often weakened by the fact that the plot is not clear enough to the public. In the case of Psycho, all the details were shown to the audience, some shots even were played twice to achieve better understanding. A spectator was aware of the danger but not prepared for such resolution. “Don’t give away the ending, it is the only one we have!” was the slogan of the movie. (Robb, 2010) Everything was planned to penetrate the emotion of the audience. Music was a significant element in penetrating emotion. “Hitchcock himself admitted that at least a third of the movie's impact depended on the music”. (Nixon, n.d.) “The violins wailing away during Psycho's shower murder scene have achieved the status of cultural shorthand - denoting imminent violent insanity” (Robb, 2010) Hitchcock not only developed mystery and suspense in the movie, he also
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- Explains that the shocking twisted ending in psycho (1960) was a most successful hitchcock's mystery.
- Explains that alfred hitchcock's three movies, sabotage, the man who knew too much, and psycho, were designed to achieve the important distinction between mystery and suspense.
- Explains that the shocking twisted ending in psycho (1960) was a most successful hitchcock's mystery.
- Explains that alfred hitchcock's three movies, sabotage, the man who knew too much, and psycho, were designed to achieve the important distinction between mystery and suspense.
419 wordsRead More - Film Analysis of Psychoanalytical essayFilm Analysis of Psycho When ‘Psycho’ was first screened in New York on 16th June 1960, it was
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- Analyzes how the success of 'psycho' made hitchcock a multi-millionaire. it earned over $15 million and made him the master of suspense he will always be known for.
- Explains that many horror and suspense film makers were influenced by hitchcock and john carpenter's "halloween".
- Analyzes how hitchcock insisted people alter their habits of going to the cinema if they wanted to see 'psycho', which affected the way people thought and acted.
- Analyzes how the success of 'psycho' made hitchcock a multi-millionaire. it earned over $15 million and made him the master of suspense he will always be known for.
- Explains that many horror and suspense film makers were influenced by hitchcock and john carpenter's "halloween".
- Analyzes how hitchcock insisted people alter their habits of going to the cinema if they wanted to see 'psycho', which affected the way people thought and acted.
- Analyzes how marion crane (janet leigh), a woman in love, is searching to free her boyfriend, sam (john gavin), from the shackles of debt. when an over zealous and rather rich oilman teases her with $40,000, she sees her future flash before her eyes
- Narrates how marion decides that she needs a good night's sleep before surprising her boyfriend the next day. she meets norman (anthony perkins) at the bates' motel.
- Analyzes how marion is brutally murdered while showering by a mysterious woman. a mortified norman quickly cleans up and disposes of the remains of his mother's rage.
379 wordsRead More - Analysis Of The Movie Psychoanalytical essayThe movie Psycho was created in 1960, and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This film has many meaningful moments behind it, which all lead up to a shocking yet interesting twist for an ending. Many clips corresponded well with Bill Nichols thoughts, and opinions on how “Every movie is a Documentary.” By comparing both the Nichols reading, and the film Psycho, it is easy to see that this film is a wish-fulfillment documentary. This film shows what could be a scary reality in many people’s lives. It gives us examples of what could be our deepest nightmares and dreads, influences an opinion over people who have multiple personalities, and even feeds some people’s interests.
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- Analyzes how the film psycho was created in 1960, and directed by alfred hitchcock. it has many meaningful moments that lead up to a shocking yet interesting twist for an ending.
- Analyzes how bill nichols believes that wish-fulfillment documentaries can be determined by "tangible expressions to our nightmares, and dreads."
- Opines that psycho could be considered a wish-fulfillment documentary because it stands for the interests of others.
- Analyzes how the film psycho was created in 1960, and directed by alfred hitchcock. it has many meaningful moments that lead up to a shocking yet interesting twist for an ending.
- Analyzes how bill nichols believes that wish-fulfillment documentaries can be determined by "tangible expressions to our nightmares, and dreads."
- Opines that psycho could be considered a wish-fulfillment documentary because it stands for the interests of others.
- Analyzes how alfred hitchcock's illusion that bates' mother is still alive in the film raises questions about her character.
- Analyzes how norman bates feels guilty for murdering his own mother that he lets her "live" through him.
- Analyzes how hitchcock raises the fear of people with multiple personalities because at first, they blend in and can have normal sweet conversations with you, until moments later, their other side could be attempting to murder you.
- Opines that every film is a documentary, just as nichols has said. this film pulls in real dreads, bates attempting to deal with his mother’s passing.
1268 wordsRead More - Exploring Alfred Hitchcock's Psychoanalytical essayFor this paper I chose to explore Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho because it has remained the only horror movie I’ve seen to date. I went into a couple others but immediately left; let’s just say horror is not my favorite genre of film. People may or may not always call Psycho a horror film, it may be more of a thriller to people nowadays, but I still believe the correct genre analysis is horror because it should always refer to the genre at the time the film was created and released. I chose Psycho because I spent multiple weeks in high school studying Hitchcock, and Psycho specifically, so I feel comfortable writing on it. I also thoroughly enjoy the film, its backstory, and the character development. Plus, it’s been roughly adapted into one of my favorite shows: Bates Motel, which I will also briefly explore.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes hitchcock's attempt to separate the generic belief that suspense and surprise are synonymous.
- Analyzes how hitchcock exhibits both extremely well and in ways that bring out their differences. marion steals the $40,000 and flees, which is a surprise to the audience.
- Opines that hitchcock's quote exemplifies how he looked at suspense and thrilling scenes. the actual bang isn't always the best part of the scene.
- Analyzes hitchcock's attempt to separate the generic belief that suspense and surprise are synonymous.
- Analyzes how hitchcock exhibits both extremely well and in ways that bring out their differences. marion steals the $40,000 and flees, which is a surprise to the audience.
- Opines that hitchcock's quote exemplifies how he looked at suspense and thrilling scenes. the actual bang isn't always the best part of the scene.
- Analyzes how psycho's shower murder scene is thrilling because its prequel scenes are full of drama in every way. the film becomes suspenseful as norman leaves marion and she decides to shower.
- Analyzes how norman bates was a psychologically broken transvestite slash serial killer. he became obsessive over his mother, norma, as he grew older.
- Analyzes how norman's mental faults are unbeknownst to him because of his motherly alter ego.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's personal style evokes the small things in the relationships of the viewers and their families.
- Analyzes how psycho introduced us to norman and his mother later on in norman’s life, and briefly told us of their backstory. in 2013, the television series adaptation bates motel was developed.
- Analyzes how the tv adaptation makes assumptions into how life would be with the bates family; connecting norma’s smothering, persuasive personality to that of how we picture it to be in psycho.
- Explains that they chose to explore alfred hitchcock's psycho because it has remained the only horror movie they've seen to date.
- Analyzes how hitchcock's style of film allows for spectators to develop a relationship with norman bates through the desire to not want anything to do with him.
2381 wordsRead More - Female Sexuality In Pssycho And Psychoanalytical essay...w the hosting of two personalities in Dr. Robert Elliot worked De Palma was able to show what the society really thought of psychiatrists and the police, and De Palma was able to undermine what would seem important to society which is order and stability. Through this scene and through other similarities and differences that De Palma has created in Dressed to Kill one could see the influence of Psycho. De Palma has perhaps borrowed and revised from Psycho but only to show the darkness that Psycho had by using less discretion, more female sexuality, more male sexual anxiety, and showing the instability and chaos that really exists in the society. So Hitchcock’s Psycho has really been a lasting influence and De Palma made sure to bring out the darkness and the chaos that the film holds through the similarities and differences seen between Psycho and Dressed to Kill.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the films follow two blonde women who are unhappy with the lives that they live. marion crane steals money to be with sam, while kate miller cheats on her husband.
- Analyzes how brain de palma's version of the parlor scene depicts dr. elliot as self-righteous but at the same time admitting so bluntly that he desires kate, his patient.
- Analyzes how sheriff al chambers and detective marino's authority figures are undermined by hitchcock and palma in dressed to kill.
- Analyzes how the films follow two blonde women who are unhappy with the lives that they live. marion crane steals money to be with sam, while kate miller cheats on her husband.
- Analyzes how brain de palma's version of the parlor scene depicts dr. elliot as self-righteous but at the same time admitting so bluntly that he desires kate, his patient.
- Analyzes how sheriff al chambers and detective marino's authority figures are undermined by hitchcock and palma in dressed to kill.
- Analyzes how de palma's psychiatrist scene and the psychiatrist himself are less impressive because he is doing what hitchcock once did in psycho.
- Analyzes how brian de palma reinvented some scenes to pay tribute to alfred hitchcock's psycho.
699 wordsRead More - Social Psychology Essayanalytical essaySocial psychology is a scientific study that studies how people think, feel, and how they behave under the influence of other people (Aronson, Wilson & Akert, 2013, p. 2). Thinking about what social influence really means, we tend to think of a person who tries to persuade another person to acting a certain way. It can be a form of peer pressure, like taking that first puff of a cigarette, or it can be conforming to popular societal views, such as obeying the law of the land. Fiction is a great way to learn about social psychological perspectives. Watching popular theatrical films is the perfect way to learn because it illustrates the application of many perceptions within the subject of social psychology.
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- Explains that social psychology is a scientific study that studies how people think, feel, and behave under the influence of others.
- Analyzes how the movie the hunger games demonstrates the social psychology concepts of conformity, arousal theory, and cognitive dissonance.
- Explains that conformity is a change in one's behavior due to the real or imagined influence of other people.
- Explains that social psychology is a scientific study that studies how people think, feel, and behave under the influence of others.
- Analyzes how the movie the hunger games demonstrates the social psychology concepts of conformity, arousal theory, and cognitive dissonance.
- Explains that conformity is a change in one's behavior due to the real or imagined influence of other people.
- Analyzes how katniss is experiencing misattribution of arousal, which is the process whereby people make mistaken inferences about what is causing them to feel the way they do.
660 wordsRead More - Alfred Hitchcock Suspenseanalytical essayThis movie single-handedly ushered in an era of inferior screen ‘slashers’ with blood-letting and graphic, shocking killings. This was Hitchcock’s very first horror film, and since it debuted he has been labeled as a horror film director ever since. It was a low-budget film, only costing 800,000 dollars. Although it had a low-budget, it was brilliantly edited. It was a stark black and white film. Psycho also broke all film conventions by displaying its leading female protagonist having a lunchtime affair in her sexy white undergarments in the first scene. It also had a brilliantly edited shower murder scene. It was truly a master piece and will remain a master piece as long as it stays around. (Psycho (1960), Document 3)
In this essay, the author
- Explains that hitchcock is the greatest director of the suspenseful film industry. he did things with movies that other directors can only dream of accomplishing.
- Explains that alfred hitchcock was born in london, england, to strict, catholic parents. he was obese as a child, which was one reason for his sheltered and lonely childhood.
- Explains that alfred hitchcock attended st. ignatius college and worked for hanley's as a draftsman and advertising designer. his work in the film industry showed his talent for suspense.
- Explains that hitchcock is the greatest director of the suspenseful film industry. he did things with movies that other directors can only dream of accomplishing.
- Explains that alfred hitchcock was born in london, england, to strict, catholic parents. he was obese as a child, which was one reason for his sheltered and lonely childhood.
- Explains that alfred hitchcock attended st. ignatius college and worked for hanley's as a draftsman and advertising designer. his work in the film industry showed his talent for suspense.
- Explains that hitchcock was the assistant director for a movie shot in berlin called the blackguard (1926). he took advantage of the german's technology and all the skills that they had.
- Explains that hitchcock left england in 1939 and started his journey to hollywood. his films became recognized worldwide for their depictions of violence, although many of his plots were just to function as decoys meant only to understand complex psychological characters.
- Describes alfred hitchcock's career, which spanned over six decades. alfred received the american film institute’s life achievement award in 1979 and died peacefully in his sleep in bel air, california one year later.
- Analyzes how alfred hitchcock's powerful, complex psychological thriller, psycho, ushered in an era of inferior screen ‘slashers’ with blood-letting and graphic, shocking killings.
- Opines that sir alfred hitchcock is the greatest director there is for intense movies, and the master of suspense.
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