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by Michael Rickard II

Dec 27, 20174 min

"'Rear Window': How to Turn a Short Story into a 112 Minute Film. Part Four of Four.&qu

Another important cinematic element is dramatic performances. Francois Truffaut observed about Hitchcock that "The neutrality you expect...

by Michael Rickard II

Dec 13, 20177 min

"'Rear Window': How to Turn a Short Story into a 112 Minute Film. Part Three of Four.&q

Here's a final paper I wrote in 2015 on Hitchcock's classic Rear Window. Another scene relies on visuals to explore "Murder's" themes of...

by Michael Rickard II

Dec 6, 20178 min

"'Rear Window': How to Turn a Short Story into a 112 Minute Film. Part Two of Four.&quo

Here's a final paper I wrote in 2015 on Hitchcock's classic Rear Window. For Alfred Hitchcock, a literary text was merely a starting...

by Michael Rickard II

Dec 1, 20175 min

"'Rear Window': How to Turn a Short Story into a 112 Minute Film. Part One of Four.&quo

Here's a final paper I wrote in 2015 on Hitchcock's classic Rear Window. Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is a masterfully worked cinematic...

Michael Rickard II

Nov 6, 20176 min

"'Rebecca': Hitchcock's First American Film, but Is It Really Hitchcock?"

Editor's Note: Here's a journal I wrote nearly three years ago about Alfred Hitchcock's film Rebecca. Like most articles here, this...

Michael Rickard II

Feb 6, 20178 min

"Rear Window" : How Alfred Hitchcock's Intermediate Adaptation of "It Had to Be M

Hitchcock also uses photographic images to show symbols related to the film’s themes. Many of them are Jeff’s photographic tools such as...

Michael Rickard II

Feb 1, 20178 min

"Rear Window": How Alfred Hitchcock's Intermediate Adaptation of "It Had to Be Mu

“Murder” was written by Cornell Woolrich, a noted author of hard-boiled fiction. Woolrich was considered a peer of hard-boiled writers...

by Michael Rickard II

Jan 26, 20178 min

Rear Window: How Alfred Hitchcock’s Intermediate Adaptation of “It Had to Be Murder” Took Film-Makin

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a masterfully worked cinematic adaptation of Cornell Woolrich’s short story “It Had to Be Murder”...