Ethans Research on Hitchcock

Here is a website which looks a Hitchcock's film techniques when creating films. This may be useful as it shows how Hitchcock uses a camera to create emotion in the audience. etc

http://www.borgus.com/think/hitch.htm

Here are a couple of reasonably in depth reviews of Psycho.

http://www.filmsite.org/psyc.html
http://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=1132


This site is interesting. The psychology of Alfred Hitchcock.
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/07/the_psychology_of_alfred_hitch.php

This particular paragraph talks about Hitchcock's attitude's to women and more so, mother figures.

"Yet Hitchcock's own psychology remains a mystery. Famously, he had ambivalent views towards women, and his relationships with his cast, particularly the leading ladies, were rocky. Generally, mothers are powerful characters in Hitchcock's films. "A boy's best friend is his mother," Norman Bates tells Marion Crane in Psycho. Freud would have concluded that Hitchcock's attitude towards women, and his obsession with strong mother figures, is probably due to Hitchcock's experiences of his own mother, who sometimes made the young Hitchcock stand at the foot of her bed for several hours as a punishment (this is alluded to in a scene in Psycho).

Hitchcock once said that "the way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them"; his films can, therefore, be regarded as projections, conscious or otherwise, of his own neuroses onto the silver screen. Some critics have suggested that Hitchcock had a severely pathological psychology."

Here are some images from the film which may or may not be useful to put into the presentation.

http://i25.tinypic.com/qn8e2s.jpg


http://hitchcock.dreamhosters.com/hitch/misc/PsychoHD1/PDVD_006.jpg


http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/Psycho_1.jpg


http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2007/0710/360_25horror_psycho.jpg


http://cfs6.tistory.com/upload_control/download.blog?fhandle=YmxvZzE2MzEzNEBmczYudGlzdG9yeS5jb206L2F0dGFjaC8wLzAzMDAwMDAwMDAwNy5qcGc%3D




And will someone please change the name of the blog.

Oedipus Complex

Some background and information about the phase which can be highly intrepreted in the film psycho.....

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/psychoanalysis/concepts/oedipus_complex.htm

I'm just getting a broad amount of research so I can peice it all together after and leave it for tommorow?....

The Tripartite Structure, The Id, Ego and Super Ego.....

Just another site with some information to do with psychoanyalsis......

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ego,_superego,_and_id

Freuds Psychosexual stages

Just a website that talks about the stages in a quite a decent way.....I'll write it up properly in a bit....

http://changingminds.org/explanations/learning/freud_stage.htm

Dave! Important!

If your reading this Dave could you please post up that information?

Thanks

I shall put together some comparisons between artists and the social effects of romanticism.

Lots to bullsh*t about there! =P

Chris

An interesting point to make on my previous blog

The idea that the Nazi propaganda movement is in effect a distortion of Romanticism's inward effect, ties in well with some of the strongest artistic history surrounding Romanticism.

Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gerhard_von_K%C3%BCgelgen_portrait_of_Friedrich.jpg


This is Caspar David Friedrich, a German Romantic painter and one of the most famous of his style.


There is a strong relation between this man and the Nazi's empowering reign over society. During the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s there was a resurgence in Friedrich's popularity, soon to be followed by a sharp decline as his paintings were, by association with the Nazi movement, misinterpreted as having a nationalistic aspect. It was not until the late 1970s that Friedrich regained his reputation as an icon of the German Romantic movement and a painter of international importance.


Chris

Romanticisim In Art

Here's a brief overview of the research in terms of the effect of romanticism in art.....

It's clear to suggest that Romanticisim within the art world acted as though I passage for artists to interpret and question the sense of portraying one's self, through the use of their artwork was the basis of an auto-biography within that time period.
At the same time, with the impact of 'The Enlightenment' effecting society, with it's certanties question, logical order taking it's toll in the rational form of philosophy, as a result, sparking a revolt against this 'ideal' and replacing it with the magnitude of the imagination, the possibilities of intuition, the importance of the emotions, and the uniqueness of the individual.

That said, it appears that the movement remained dominant over the western culture, it remained in it's art form more significant in France, as opposed to England and German, who took the regins on both Literiture and Music.
Consisting of emotion in terms of expressivness, in particular manipulating the tone of mood with the reviving use of clashing colour, the prominence of the brushstroke and impasto the artist's free handling of paint opposses against other artistic movements, for instance 'Neo-Classcisim'.
However it did inherited some aspects of this particular movement, essentially in the serious tone of art, juxtaposing against frivlous or more decorative art pieces, that the two movements indeed rather then a seperate entities, they rather co-exists, one key factor of indentifying them, is recognising that the 'Romantic' artists places more emphasis into the soul, abandoning 'logical discourse' found within Neo-classcisism, and leading inward.


These thoughts and feelingly represented in the ideals of Romantics can be vivdly recognised in artists involved in the movement......

Artists....

Casper David Freidrich
Fransisco Goya
J.M.W Turner
Albert Bierstadt
Frederic Edwin Church
Thomas Cole
Eugiene Delacroix

Thomas Cole....

Cole was primarily a painter of landscape, and worked a great deal in america, as well as using american surroundings in a few of his pieces, he later went on to found the Hudson River School, named after the Hudson River region of New York State, dubbed the fuirst 'American' style of painting.

It's safe to say that Cole felt nature was a force to be reckoned with (as did many artists that fell in to the same catogory), and found it awe inspiring at the same time, with works such as the series The Voyage of Life' interpretating it as the hand of God, and representation of our own life, and therefore respecting it on a high level, so much so, he devoted series of work in portraying 'Anti-Enlightenment' pieces, for example his 'Empire' series....(The Course of Empire - The Savage State; The Course of Empire - The Arcadian or Pastoral State; The Course of Empire - The Consummation; The Course of Empire - Destruction; and The Course of Empire - Desolation) which depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city....and shows us that although men can build and destroy lanscape with his 'Creations' nature will irrevocably take it back, and overcome man......a romantic ideal in itself....

This said, his work higly inspirational to other artists who shared a simmilar concept of the world at the time, with works from....

Frederic Edwin Church
I'll leave this up to you to slice and dice into the presentation, but i'll attempt to come in before to go over the slideshow etc...im sorry I cant come in tommorow, but 95% of this is in my own words....so don't worry about changing it, all you have to do is maybe grab a few pictures to show and compare, but we'll quickly go over that before hand....