View a feature film made between 1970-2000 you have not seen before (or will see later in this class) by a great director or featuring a great actor or actress. Just
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This is essentially the same assignment as Paper One BUT about a film produced between 1970 and 2000.
Part 1: View a feature film made between 1970 – 2000 you have not seen before (or will see later in this class) by a great director or featuring a great actor or actress.
Just as you did in the first paper, comment on the specific film you saw. Pay particular attention to the screenplay, camerawork (cinematography), the editing (montage), and the sound (including music). For this paper, also address special effects. Again, as you did in the first paper, talk about what you like and what you dislike? Why do you like the things you like, and why do you dislike the things you dislike? Is the film a good film, or is it not?
Part 2: Now that you have commented on the specific film you viewed, see if you can draw some general conclusions about the work of the director and one of the main actors or actresses. Be sure to comment on the overall impression you had of the film, including how you see it as an example of the genre and its time period. Remember, this film review is based on your opinions and insights: Do not repeat what you have learned by reading up on the film or the filmmaker.
Part 3: Go back to the "My Criteria for Quality in Film" page. Based on your viewing of this week's film, add four new general conclusions. These statements should be numbered (5) through (8). Be sure to include all of the criteria you created for Paper One.
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OUTLINE
I. Alfred Hitchcock: One of the Greatest Directors of All Time
1. Known as “the Master of Suspense” Hitchcock is notably one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
2. Alfred Hitchcock was also a brilliant technician who deftly blended sex, suspense and humor while creating a number of motifs and devices – most famously the MacGuffin – to advance his intricate plots in addition to being a talented director.
II. Life and Career
Life
1. Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, England on August 13, 1899. He was the youngest of three children born to William and Emma Jane Hitchcock. Over the years some have tried to suggest Hitchcock’s Catholicism as the source of the twisted themes he explored in his work. Film critics have traced his recurring cinematic motifs of guilt and fear to his Catholic sensibilities.
2. After attending a technical school at 15, Hitchcock spent the first years of his career as a draftsman, advertising designer, and writer. An interest in photography led to him working in London's film industry, first as a title card designer for silent movies and, just five years later, as a director.
Career
1. Hitchcock’s career began in the reign of Queen Victoria and ended in the presidency of Jimmy Carter, moving from London to Hollywood, from a title designer on silent movies to becoming one of the world’s most famous
directors. The first movie he directed was the silent Number 13 (1922); his last was the much noisier Family Plot (1976).
2. During his career, he created over fifty feature films in a career that saw not only the development of Hitchcock's own distinctive directorial style, but also landmark innovations in cinema. Hitchcock has been credited with pioneering many camera and editing techniques for peers and aspiring directors to emulate.
III. Honors and Awards
Honors
1. Hitchcock collected many professional accolades including two Golden Globes, eight Laurel Awards, and five lifetime achievement awards. He was a five-time Academy Award nominee for Best Director and in 1940, his film Rebecca won the Oscar for Best Picture.
2. Hitchcock was granted a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth in 1980, shortly before his death. A knighthood is a title that is given to a man by a British king or queen for his achievements or his service to his country.
Awards
1. Academy Awards, USA. 1968. Winner. Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. 1961. Nominee. Oscar. Best Director. Psycho (1960) Golden Globes, USA. Primetime Emmy Awards. BAFTA Awards. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA.
2. In 2008, four of his movies were named in American Film Institute's Top 10 Mystery Films of all time: Dial M for Murder (No. 9), North by Northwest (No. 7), Rear Window (No. 3) and Vertigo (No. 1).
Critical Opinions/Reviews
Opinions
1. In 2012 when the film critics polled by Sight and Sound voted “Vertigo” the greatest film of all time, kicking Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” from a top spot it had enjoyed for decades.
2. Wellesians bit their knuckles, and the rest of us scratched our heads. “Vertigo” is not Hitchcock’s best, but rather, with its lush morbidity, somnolent pace, poor box office and relative scarcity of jokes, the Hitchcock film for those who most wish he were French. Flops make film critics feel useful — they are the film-crit equivalent of the deserving poor. What else can you do with a gleaming hit maker except overpraise his misses?
Reviews
1. Since his death in 1980, books have multiplied like gravestones, now numbering in the hundreds, with his biographers falling into two camps. There are those who side with Donald Spoto in “The Dark Side of Genius” (1983), who had him pegged as a troubled man whose deepest creative energies were coupled with fear, lust, sadism and a thoroughly unwholesome interest in his actresses — a creep with a movie camera.
2. A man of “exaggeratedly delicate sensibilities,” according to John Houseman, driven by fear, guilt and loathing of his own body, yet dainty to the point of effeminacy in his gestures and attitudes, wielding his bulk with the grace of Fatty Arbuckle. “Never ruffled, never gave any sign of being worried, was always in control,” Karl Malden said of working with the director.
III. Conclusion
Alfred Hitchcock. No introduction necessary really. One of the greatest directors of 20th Century cinema, to this day he is still a huge influence to directors and film students around the world; his films just as popular with audiences now as back when Cary Grant was scrabbling across rooftops on the
Riviera or running away from malicious biplanes. Motel owners are still very much on the fence about him however.
Annotated Bibliography
Alfred Hitchcock. (n.d.). This website provided information in regards to the early life and legacy
of Alfred Hitchcock. This website provided early life information and details about his early education. It provided essential data integral to research for my final research paper.
Alfred Hitchcock. (n.d.). This website provided information in regards to the various awards
Alfred Hitchcock was nominated.
Alfred Hitchcock's Early Career. (2015, August 13). Retrieved from
This website provided information in regards to the early life and career of Alfred Hitchcock.
Alfred Hitchcock. (2016, May 24). This website provided information in regards to the various
Oscar nominations for various Alfred Hitchcock movies. As I stated in my proposal, Hitchcock never won an Oscar, but this website provided details in regards to the many nominations.
Alfred Hitchcock: TV Guide. (n.d.). This website provided additional information pertaining to
Alfred Hitchcock’s biography. Although there were many sources that provided biographical information pertaining to Hitchcock’s life and career, the TV Guide provided some unusual information.
Mystery. (n.d.). This website provided information about Alfred Hitchcock’s films that ended up
in the top ten mystery films of all times. This was no small feat as there were many mystery films eligible for this category. Once again, this proves why Hitchcock is one of the greatest directors of all time.
The Man Who Knew His Faith: The Catholicism of Alfred Hitchcock. (n.d.). This website
provided a wealth of information in regards to Alfred Hitchcock’s Catholic faith and how it impacted his filmmaking.
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Final Essay Stage 2- Outline and Resources
1. Use either an Alphanumeric Outline, a Decimal Outline, or a sentence hierarchical outline.
2. The list of resources you expect to use includes websites, books and films. This should be in the form of an Annotated Bibliography.
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Final Project Info
You should select a director who was active (directed more than 3 movies) during the time period of 1950 – 2000. In your term paper, give me the basic details of the director's life and career. Identify some of the director's most important films. What honors and awards did the director receive? Provide a sampling of critical opinion about the director's work (i.e. film reviews or articles). View at least two films by your director and comment on them (one of them can be a film you would have watch previously for the class). Do not summarize any plots. Write about how this director used the following in these films: Editing (montage), Sound and Music, Cinematography, Special Camera Work (steady cam, hand held, optical effects), Special Effects (this can include stunt work).
(b) Select one film of feature length made during the time period of 1970 – 2000. You are not to use a film already used by you, the instructor or the course content. In your term paper, you should present information about the making of the movie, about its success at the box office, about awards it was nominated for and/or received. Also present a sampling of the critical reaction to the film, from both the time of its release and later. Finally, you should watch the film and react to it. Do not summarize the plot. Assume that I've already seen the film. In addition, write about how this director used the following in these films: Editing (montage), Sound and Music, Cinematography, Special Camera Work (steady cam, hand held, optical effects), Special Effects (this can include stunt work).
(c) This option is more of a research option that the other two. You are to take a topic or item with in an element of film making and write a short research paper on its development. For example, if you want to write about camera development, take a more focused part of that broader topic such as the steady cam and use that as your subject. You do not need to get too technical in your paper. Some broader topics include: Camera Development, Projection and Viewing in Theaters, Film, Special Effects, Director Training, Actor Training, and Editin
As you prepare for the Outline of your Final Paper, here are some things to keep in mind:
Wherever you are in your writing process, it's important to remember that you're trying to show me what you've learned in the course
Make observations and connections and integrate vocabulary and concepts we're learning
Think about the organization. Simply listing the elements in the assignment prompt is not an outline
The thesis statement is the most important part of the outline I would like to see a full sentence outline. The more complete your work is now, the more helpful and substantive my feedback can be. I look forward to seeing how your work is developing!
You should plan to spend about more time on this stage of the assignment (research and outline) than on the final stage of the assignment (rough draft and polish)
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