1. Alfred Hitchcock

2. Background Leytonstone, London August 13, 1899
William and Emma Hitchcock
Estimator for the Henley Telegraph and Cable Company- 1915
Spare time was spent at the cinema
Started in film- 1920
Made first film- 1925
April 29, 1980

3. Involvement 1920- after university he started in the film industry
Scriptwriter
Art director
Assistant director
1923- Always Tell Your Wife- director got sick
Number 13- studio closed London branch
1925 debut- The Pleasure Garden
1927 first hit- The Lodger

4. Genre Thrillers Camera pans, tilts, zooms
Scenery painted onto camera lens
Alma Reville

5. Style Moody and dark Madness and betrayal MacGuffin
Plot device that drives suspense. Protagonists pursue throughout the story but audiences don’t really know why
Cameos
Blondes
Ingrid Bergman, Joan Fontaine, Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Tippi Hedren
Climax scene at famous landmarks
Charming villain
Murder

6. Filmography The Birds Strangers On A Train The Man Who Knew Too Much
Notorious
Psycho

7. Most Notable Film Psycho Last black and white film
Hitchcock’s relationship with his own mother
American Film Institute- 14th greatest movie of all time
Tony Perkins as Norman Bates second greatest villain in movie history (1st was Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lector)

8. Film Report pt: 1 Robert Bloch's novel
Phoenix secretary Marion Crane stole $40,000 from her boss to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis. The criminal couple get tired during the run away and stop at the Bates Motel to rest for the evening. There, they meet Norman Bates who has a strange fascination in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.

9. Film Report pt: 2 Budget- 30 days- $800,000
$5 million box office
Release date- September 8, 1960
Cast:
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates
Janet Leigh as Marion Crane
John Gavin as Sam Loomis
Vera Miles as Lila Crane
Pat Hitchcock as Caroline (Alfred Hitchcock’s daughter)

11. Critical Reception
“…the experienced Hitchcock fan might reasonably expect the unreasonable—a great chase down Thomas Jefferson’s forehead, as in North by Northwest, or across the rooftops of Monaco, as in To Catch a Thief. What is offered instead is merely gruesome. The trail leads to a sagging, swamp-view motel and to one of the messiest, most nauseating murders ever filmed. At close range, the camera watches every twitch, gurgle, convulsion and hemorrhage in the process by which a living human becomes a corpse.”- TIME’S

12. Clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9mJ2oBONug
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is in the lobby of the Bates Motel talking with Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) about personal traps and his mother.

13. Reflection