Bright Lights Film Journal

  • TwitterTwitter
  • FacebookFacebook
  • InstagramInstagram
  • Google+Google+
  • RSSRSS
  • About
    • Staff
    • History
    • Contact
    • Advertise with BLFJ
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Banned Words
    • BLFJ News
    • Issue Archive
  • Artists
    • Actors & Personalities
    • Cinematographers
    • Composers
    • Directors
    • Editors
    • Interviews
    • Visual Artists
    • Writers & Critics
  • Movies
    • DVD & Blu-ray
    • Festivals & Awards
    • Lists
    • Reviews
    • Photo Essays
  • Genres
    • Activist & Political
    • Animation
    • Asian
    • Avant Garde & Underground
    • Crime
    • Documentaries
    • Erotica & Exploitation
    • Historical & Epic
    • Horror
    • LGBT & Queer
    • Music & Musicals
    • Noir
    • Pre-Code
    • SF & Fantasy
    • Silents
    • Westerns
  • TV & Streaming
  • Books
  • Contributors
  • Subscribe
  • Ads

123 Search results for "Alfred Hitchcock"

Greene Bazin

Drama · Theory · Writers & Critics

0

André Bazin and Graham Greene (and Alfred Hitchcock): Some Points of Contact

  • November 9, 2020

Bazin would always harbor reservations about The Third Man, but, due to that film, Greene’s presence would continue to loom large in discussions of Orson Welles, who was, of course,[…]

Crime · Drama · Reviews

1

Watch It Again! Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

  • May 12, 2017

Hitchcock’s one-word titles have never been so instructive. Psycho is the feeling of being preyed on by your self, as by one of Norman’s stuffed birds. It is the primal[…]

Reviews

0

WALTZES FROM VIENNA (Alfred Hitchcock 1934)

  • November 2, 2012

Notwithstanding the absence of spy plots, murders, or homicidal maniacs, WALTZES FROM VIENNA is very much a film by Alfred Hitchcock. It was co-scripted by his wife, Alma Reville. It displays[…]

Reviews

0

Women in Wonderland, Part 3 – Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock 1960)

  • February 10, 2009

  The Alices in flight, those beautiful women alone in their cars on the run – Sylvia Kristel in Alice ou la Dernière Fugue, Candace Hilligoss in Carnival of Souls,[…]

Actors & Personalities

0

Alfred Hitchcock at the Drag Ball: When Being Blonde and Soulless Is Not Enough

  • October 31, 2008

“Mother … my mother … um, what’s the phrase? She isn’t quite herself today.”

Directors · Photo Essays

0

Alfred Hitchcock: A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone: A Photo Essay on the Master’s Visual Motifs

  • October 31, 2003

For almost fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock filled his films with a select group of images, including houses, staircases, women’s hair, the human hand, the human eye, the “uncanny,” and the[…]

Crime · Directors · Reviews

1

Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid! Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho

  • April 1, 2000

Hitch’s – and by now the whole damn culture’s – seminal Oedipal nightmare revisited Read the companion photo essay “Alfred Hitchcock: A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone”[…]

Rebecca

Costume Drama · Drama · Horror · Literature and Film · Women in Film

0

“The Shadow and the Ghost”: The Spirit of Hitchcock and Rebecca’s Suspicions of Succession

  • January 23, 2021

In transposing Rebecca, notice how Hitchcock’s camera attends to shadows – bisecting faces and bruising frames – to approximate du Maurier’s disorienting syntax and looming dread. Or watch as his[…]

Blow-up

Essays · Philosophy

1

Under the Sign of 39: The Case of the Curious Coincidence from Hitchcock to Antonioni and Beyond

  • June 1, 2016

In movieland, there is also the kind of coincidence where someone indeed has planned it, someone acting from behind the scene, manipulating appearances. In this case, a coincidence is a[…]

Double Take

Documentaries · Experimental & Underground · Reviews

0

Hitchcock’s Shadow: On Johan Grimonprez’s Double Take

  • July 31, 2010

“The doubled Hitchcock mirrors the Hitchcock double, who in turn reflects Hitchcock pretending to play himself.”

Reviews

0

Hitchcock meets Hitchcock in DOUBLE TAKE

  • June 2, 2010

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UIonNH-rz8] So this filmmaker, Johan Grimonprez, who teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York, gets the idea of creating a fictional film about Alfred Hitchcock constructed largely[…]

Essays · Writers & Critics

1

The Pervert’s Guide to The Birds: Of Hitchcock, Žižek, the Maternal Superego, and Critical Confusion

  • April 1, 2010

“It is the search for explanation itself and the experience of the alien, disturbing, and frightening that thrills audiences.” In The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, directed and produced by Sophie Fiennes,[…]

Essays · LGBT & Queer

1

Psycho: Queering Hitchcock’s Classic

  • July 31, 2008

We have met the cross-dressing closeted maniac, and he is us

Artists · Directors · Essays · Movies · Reviews

1

Stranger and Stranger: Hitchcock and Male Envy

  • February 1, 2007

Beyond the queer readings of Strangers on a Train Men’s envy toward other men is a peculiarly anxiety-arousing topic and is rarely discussed, let alone openly admitted. Envy traditionally is deeply[…]

Directors · Reviews

0

Last Laugh: Was Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Vertigo a Private Joke?

  • March 1, 1997

“On one level, Vertigo bewitches us with eerie fascination; on another, it leads us on a wild goose chase in search of Scottie’s character. But could the latter really have been Hitchcock’s[…]

Reviews

1

A Touch of Psycho? Welles’s Influence on Hitchcock

  • September 10, 1995

Hitchcock has always been considered a director sui generis. John W. Hall looks at Psycho and Touch of Evil to show that even Hitch couldn’t resist the charms — and stylistic strategies — of Orson Welles.[…]

John Whitney

Animation · Animators · Designers · Experimental & Underground

0

Vicious Circle: John Whitney and the Military Origins of Early CGI

  • March 15, 2023

John Whitney himself envisioned nothing more and nothing less for the future of CGI than a union of space and time: “Time has become visual.” But all film deals in[…]

Citizen Spielberg

Books · Directors

0

Book Review: Lester D. Friedman, Citizen Spielberg, 2nd ed.

  • July 20, 2022

Lester D. Friedman. Citizen Spielberg. 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. $24.95. Calling him “our foremost practitioner of reel American history,” Friedman draws our attention to Spielberg’s determination[…]

Mr. Freedom

Activist & Political · Comedy · Counterculture · Experimental & Underground

0

Laughing at Ourselves: On William Klein’s Mr. Freedom (1969)

  • June 16, 2022

This is an excerpt from the introduction to the author’s new book on Mr. Freedom (https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781800856943/). * * * The film calls into question both the American international and domestic[…]

Orson Welles

Directors · Sports

0

The Shadow of Ernest Hemingway: On Crazy Weather, Orson Welles’s Unpublished 1973 Bullfighting Screenplay

  • April 15, 2022

The unfinished projects to which Welles devoted his energies began in July 1961. This was exactly twenty-five years after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the year in which[…]

  • Next Page »
  • Links + BSA

    ProjectorScreen.com
    Shop ProjectorScreen.com for the best projectors and projector screens.
    YouTube to MP3
    Wholesale Home Audio Video
    • Weird Band Names
    • How to write a script for a TV show PDF
    • Marketing Enablement
      • TwitterTwitter
      • FacebookFacebook
      • InstagramInstagram
      • Google+Google+
      • RSSRSS

      © 2020 Bright Lights Film Journal | brightlightsfilm.com
      Online since 1996 | ISSN: 0147-4049
      a Studio Hyperset expression · Design by Irina Beffa · Theme Art by Jim McDermott
      Privacy