Alfred Hitchcock Research Paper

Alfred Hitchcock is a British film director whose work has transcended and influence new generations. Since the beginning of his career his talent, unique ideas as well as his great knowledge of technique call the attention of producers. Since The Lodger, the first movie made with Hitchcock´s signature style, the themes as well as the symbols in each movie became recurrent and well establish. Despite Hitchcock’s lack of formal training in cinema, he manage to became an iconic director and become one of the masters of suspense and mystery. In this essay will be described the highlights of Hitchcock´s career, his first Hitchcockian film as well as his adaptation to the technical changes in sound. Additionally, will be analyzed some critics statements

He began working in cinema as a card designer in a production company called the Famous–Players Lasky. Soon he was assigned director of a film called The number thirteen, but due to economical problems the film was neither complete nor publish. Despite the failure, he continue doing diverse jobs such as the edition of the film Always Tell Your Wife and between 1922 and 1925, he was the director assistant of Graham Cutts. Despite his lack of formal education in cinema, Hitchcock was able to learn from the practical experiences and adquire knowledge from the different technical parts that compose a film. In 1925, Hitchcock directed his first film, The Pleasure Garden. This film was produce in Munich, due to a deal made by the production company. The narrative of this film was based on a novel, this was not meant to be a great production, it was thought to be a low budget film to attract people and get profit. So Hitchcock didn’t have everything he would want to improve this film, such as a snake to deliver a symbolic message. Still Hitchcock used camera techniques and focused on subtle acting and managed to impress the producer Michael Balcon, who assigned him the direction of another film, The Mountain Eagle. This film was not very successful and quickly forgotten, not even Hitchcock saw it as a good