Alfred Hitchcock
Name: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Nicknames: Hitch & The Master of Suspense.
Born: 13 August 1899, in Leytonstone, London(England)
Died: 29 April 1980, in Bel Air, California(United States) at 80 years old
Occupation and Years active: Film Producer and Director, Active from 1921-76
Main Genre Specialist: Suspense and Psychological thrillers
Finished Films
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| The 1st film we watched from Alfred Hitchcock |
The Pleasure Garden (1925)
The Mountain Eagle (1926) (lost)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
The Ring (1927)
Downhill (1927)
The Farmer's Wife (1928)
Easy Virtue (1928)
Champagne (1928)
The Manx-man (1929)
Blackmail (1929)
Juno and the Paycock(1930)
Murder! (1930)
Elstree Calling (1930)
The Skin Game (1931)
Mary (1931)
Rich and Strange (1931)
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| This was the third film we watched from Alfred Hitcock. |
Number Seventeen (1932)
Waltzes from Vienna (1933)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Secret Agent (1936)
Sabotage (1936)
Young and Innocent(1937)
The Lady Vanishes(1938)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
Foreign Correspondent(1940)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith(1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt(1943)
Lifeboat (1943)
Aventure Malgache (1944)
Bon Voyage (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
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| Psycho was the 2nd film we watched from Alfred Hitchcock . |
Notorious (1946)
The Paradine Case(1947)
Rope (1948)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Stage Fright (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Topaz (1969)
Frenzy (1972)
Family Plot (1976)
The highlighted film names are the ones we watched in our lessons on Alfred Hitchcock
Themes and Plot Devices in Alfred Hitchcock Films
Hitchcock represents many cinematic devices but Hitchcock's main Genre/Device is suspense and thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock is mostly well-known for his MacGuffin but he is also known for being a successful and one of the best British Film director, even with his silent movies and his early "talkies".Hitchcock framed all his thriller films and film editing to maximise anxiety, fear and empathy.
Within the Plot there are normally fugitives on the run and encounters a normally "blonde" fem fatale, they normally have a twist in the ending that is also linked to Hitchcock's Psychological approach to thriller films which also allows us to understand why there is normally more in terms of analysis to the psychological health of Hitchcock's characters.
Television, Radio, and Books
Television: Hitchcock was among the first prominent motion picture producers along with Walt Disney to to imagine how television would become popular.Hitchcock also was the host of of a television series although associated with suspense the series portrayed Hitchcock as darkly humorous but yet again made him instantly recognised.
Books: As Hitchcock became so popular he appeared as a character in other well known detective book series, Also Hitchcock's name was licensed for a monthly magazine called "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine". Hitchcock also wrote a mystery story for Look magazine in 194, the sequence encouraged the reader to piece the Murder/Mystery together.
Radio: Hitchcock also had a radio series called "The late Alfred Hitchcock presents" which was broadcast by BBC Radio 7 which ran for 15 minute sessions, but was actually an impersonation of Alfred Hitchcock.
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