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by Michael Rickard II

"'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

"'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

"'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

"'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

"'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

"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

"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

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”...