The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

lasting impact on Hitchcock, that movement being German Expression. By looking at German Expressionism, its roots, and ultimately its influence on cinema, juxtaposed upon Hitchcock’s own early years as a filmmaker, with films such as The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), continuing with a look at Spellbound (1945), and culminating with one of his best-known films Vertigo (1958). We can see that German Expressionism

permit. Hitchcock began sending short stories to local publications. “Gas”, a short-story thriller about a woman who hallucinates being mugged, was his first published work. From then on, he published many more articles and tidbits into local

The Slasher Film: The Modern Day Fairy Tale General Purpose: To inform the audience about the psychological appeal of the slasher film, a brief history of the genre, and the links to urban legends and fairy tales. Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about direct link to morality tales and the slasher film genre. Thesis Statement: Slasher films are modern day morality tales, rooted deeply in urban legends and fairy tales, as clearly depicted in John Carpenter’s Halloween, where characters

Hitchcock began his career in the early 1920s as a silent filmmaker, and rose to fame after his first successful silent thriller, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927). As sound technology progressed and became more accessible to filmmakers and movie theaters, Hitchcock began to work in sound. However, for the remainder of his career, Hitchcock was profoundly influenced by what he called ‘pure cinema’. This idea represents the film medium and its affective and expressive capabilities, unconstrained

Hitchcock’s Visual Techniques A common afterthought for most movie-goers is the importance of how the film’s director planned and shot each scene in a film to effectively involve the audience emotionally and physically. Famous director Alfred Hitchcock’s main focus when directing was to visually present important information and themes in the film’s plot and of the character’s inner thoughts and emotion. He achieved this by using innovative film editing, manipulating lighting, controlling perspectives