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In this essay I will be doing a close analysis on the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, 1960. I will be looking at the mise-en-scène, performance, cinematography, editing, and the manipulation of sound. I will also be looking at themes that are explored in the film and what messages they convey to the audience. I will be using some theories to help analyze this particular sequence. At the beginning of the clip we can see the Marion flushing pieces of paper down the toilet in a close

placed before him. Once again, he does not do his task for the small amounts of money, but he does it because he feels it is what he must do. Conventions of the Genre Film Noir was a result of it's time - The war had just ended and It was time where prohibition had influenced an abundance in crime and corruption. Film noir serves to highlight the darkest aspects of human beings. ‘Society is making the machinery of it's own destruction. Characters: The Typical ‘masculine' hero - often makes

The gangster or mob film genre has captivated audiences for nearly one hundred years, dating back to the silent film era. Introduced through films such as The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) and Underworld (1927), the genre has become increasingly complex in its development, evidenced by the sophisticated narratives and advanced cinematographic techniques of more recent films such as Road to Perdition (2002) and The Departed (2006). This paper will serve to analyze only two of these brilliant works

Crime Films When looking at the crime film it is important to understand the nature of the films genre. The genre is a way for the audience to distinguish types of films. These are categorised together because of standard protocols developed for a particular types or styles of film. These films usually follow similar guidelines in order to produce a predictable style for the audience. The development of genre films is not entirely the prerogative of Hollywood. It is more the desire of the public

Treatment for A city rarely snow I. Authors : Yuyi Chen Genre: Noir fiction Title: “a City rarely snow” Contact information: yuyic@uci.edu II. Background: The idea of this movie comes form several noir film in the 1940s and 1950s about how a femme fatale tries to kill her husband. The screenwriter is a student in University of California, Irvine who has studying Noir film for several months. The protagonist, is a freelancer journalist, is influence by the several films such as L.A Confidential

The Noir Anti-Hero: How Walter Huff Reflects Depression-Era Society The anti-hero of Double Indemnity, Walter Huff, is a reflection of the greed, lust, and corruption of the evils of society during the Great Depression. The anti-hero must navigate his way through the external landscape of depression-era Los Angeles in an attempt to survive the urban wilderness in perhaps some very non-conventional ways. Despite this, the anti-hero is relatable to the reader since he is not seen as a typical hero

Elie Rahbani 201300566 History of film paper: Topic: Orson welles Question: How do the formalistic and ideological patterns found in Orson Welles’s movies; Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, and Othello, make him a great auteur? Outline: • 1. Orson Welles (Biography and 3 films) • 2. Formalistic patterns: ➢ Mise en Scene in each film ➢ Editing in each film • 3. Ideological patterns (in each film) • 4. Orson Welles as an Auteur 1. Orson Welles: Biography: Orson Welles was born on the 6th of May

Jasvinder Singh Prof. Sarah Markgraf Intro to Cinema 5 December 2016 Royale with Cheese Pulp Fiction by Quinton Tarantino falls into the genre of a Gangster film but has elements of other genres as well like Film Noir and Black Comedy. Pulp Fiction has a balance of drama and comedy along with hard to watch scenes like rape, violence, gore and heavy drug use. Tarantino’s style of movie making help make Pulp Fiction the classic it is today. The mise-en-scene, cinematography and other elements

Film noir, translated literally to mean “black cinema or film,” defines early to middle 20th century film that reflects a trend of dark and grim emotions as art seen on screen in post-war America (Dirks 2016). Stylistics such as people presenting themselves as something they really are not, criminal activity, entrapment, corruption, grim city settings, characters that operate on the margin of society are littered throughout film noir. There are many common narratives presented in film noir. Rational

Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski, is a thriller, detective fiction and film noir. Back story plays an important role within Chinatown as it allows the audience to be exposed to the greed and corruption within the plot through a slow reveal. Characteristic of a detective fiction is the slow release of information allowing for the audience to understand the crime and its’ motives at the same pace as the detective. The backstory behind Chinatown builds tension within the story as it clearly foreshadows