Hollywood - Classical (Hitchcock) Flashcards

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Auteur

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The auteur is one whose work is marked by a coherent world view; has a distinctive set of trademarks, visuals and perhaps even running motifs, across a body of work.

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Classical Hollywood

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A period of film making. In EDUQAS’s terms (our exam board), this is 1930-1960. Also known as The Golden Age of Cinema.

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The Hays Code

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Formally known as the Production Code – a set of rules which upheld ‘moral decency’. A form of filmic censorship

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The Studio System

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In The Golden Age, five Big and three Small studios had an oligopoly – a system of enormous power and control where they signed up stars for seven years, where they also distributed and showed the films.

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1950’s emasculated man

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After the end of WW2, men came back to the States and didn’t know who they were any more – their jobs had been efficiently done by women for the duration of the war, which create a sense of emasculation (feeling less masculine)

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Gender conformity

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Sticking to prescribed ‘gender rules’ - what was expected of men or women in the 1950s.

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‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents…’

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Hitchcock’s British TV series which made him well known

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The Master of Suspense

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The nickname, possibly self-created

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The Hitchcock Blonde

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Hitchcock preferred casting blonde leading ladies (Grace Kelly, Tippi Hedren, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak) - he said “blondes make the best victims – it’s like blood on virgin snow.”

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Voyeurism

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The act of enjoying watching someone else, often without their knowledge.

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Pure Cinema

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The adjective “pure” connotes a sense of worship, or purity, simplicity, the TRUTH of the cinematic experience – it was about what you could see and hear and how that made you feel. In literal terms, a period of time in a film with no dialogue.

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Bernard Hermann

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Hitchcock’s Composer on 11 of his films

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Edith Head

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Hitchcock’s costume designer on many of his films

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Cameo

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A small part, uncredited. Hitchcock had a cameo in all his films – this upped his profile.

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Dolly Zoom

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Camera move popularised by Hitchcock in which the camera zooms in as is it physically pulled in the opposite direction. Represents Scottie’s Vertigo.

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Motif

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Recurring image which represents one idea (mirrors = hidden part of identity/dual identity)

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Lissajous Waves

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The swirling curves in the title sequence which symbolise the twisted psychological landscapes to come