Hitchcock then uses some special editing techniques to finalize the murder, and address the shock of the audience. ... Hitchcock has created a mini-narrative with this shower scene made up by a long introduction, a long conclusion, and a flash of violence that interrupts the audience's privacy with Marion, and ultimately destroys their relationship. ... Psycho is one of Hitchcock's greatest films, a classic horror that was ahead of its time both narratively and cinematically. I believe that this particular scene, with its masterful use of editing and musical accompaniment, serves ...

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As the 1950's began, Westerns introduced new techniques of filmmaking both on location and in the editing room. ... "In theory, this meant that the songs and dances should serve to advance the narrative, but in practice it produces the unrealistic convention of a character's bursting into a song at the slightest dramatic provocation. ... Also with James Stewart's feelings of vertigo, Hitchcock portrays his visceral sense of ambivalence by using the track out and zoom forward technique whenever he confronts his fear. It's these techniques that he would also go to use in his ...

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These complex parameters of Pure Cinema will be examined through the films of the great narrative filmmaker Alfred Hitch cock, among others. ... Fortunately we have filmmakers with respect for both the Purity of cinema as well as the new and complex narrative desires of the modern world. ... Within the entertaining plot lines of any Hitchcock film lies, embedded within the subtext and cinematic technique, another complete level of filmic enjoyment. ... This level exists within many many modern narrative sound films, including films from Hollywood and all over the world. ... The most obviou...

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Movies incorporated prominent issues into their narrative and thus influenced public opinion.6 The Catholic publisher Martin J. ... This technique impacts the public as it normalises behaviour which would normally be perceived as deviant. ...

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Films are probably the closest medium we have to experiencing the inexplicable quality of the dream in our waking lives. Rich in symbol, metaphor, movement and mystery, films, like dreams, enable us to participate in another reality, and, through that participation, to be transformed. Films are li...

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