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Auteur Theory: Alfred Hitchcock - Coggle Diagram
Auteur Theory: Alfred Hitchcock
Sarris
Technical Competence
The dolly zooms when Scotty is experiencing the 'vertigo' sensation
Shot blocking of the first Madeline scene
Pure cinema - no dialogue - Scotty following Madeline and investigating Carlotta
Mise-en-scene - Reincarnation of Madeline scene - ghostly fog filter
Ending shot of Scotty on the tower
Establishing shots at the end of set pieces
Long take set pieces - lack of cuts
High angle reaction shots
Set piece of Madeline - camera stalking toward her
Profile shots - only half of a character seen
Colour - saturated red / green
Telephoto lens in Rear Window to represent voyeurism
Plane set piece in north by northwest
Interior Meaning
Voyeurism
fetishism
masculinity identity crisis - emasculation
master of suspense
fear of the police
Castrated male projecting desires
Personal Style
Motifs
Hitchcock blonde - unobtainable
Conventional men
High angles
Profile shots
Unchained POV
Subjective camera
mcguffin - plot twist
Voyeurism
Dutch angles
Thematic
Stylistic
Structural
Hitch Quotes
'blondes make the best victims'
'i never said that actors are like cattle... I said that they should be treated like cattle'
'film is not a slice of life - it's a piece of cake'
'blondes make the best victims, they're like virgin snow that show up bloody footprints'
“SUSPENSE IS LIKE A WOMAN. THE MORE LEFT TO THE IMAGINATION, THE MORE THE EXCITEMENT.”
'I'm not against the police I'm just afraid of them'
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