As a cinematic genre dating back to the mid 1930's, film noir isgenerally defined as a dark, suspenseful thriller with a plotline revolvingaround crime or mystery. Following World War II, film noir gained muchrecognition when Hollywood thrillers, such as The Maltese Falcon (1941)with Humphrey ...

The Father of the Techno-ThrillerMichael Crichton is a well-educated best-selling author. All together he went to Harvard for eight years. He has taught himself a great deal of knowledge just by traveling to exotic places, doing research for a book, or by simply getting into a hobby or interest. ...

In 1938, at the mere age of 23, Orson Welles' radio adaptation and performance of H.G. Well's classic science fiction thriller The War of the Worlds established him as a household name and a master of dramatic production. His previous experience, in both directing and acting, in theater had ta...

The Birds, and Event Horizon: Two movies of the same "horror" genre, but they both scare you in completely different ways. The Birds is a thriller released in 1963, which uses little or no special effects to horr you to a sinister stupor. Event Horizon is a film made in the Twentieth century that us...

An analysis of the film Fight Club For years, David Fincher has been turning out some of the most stylish and inventive thrillers to ever hit the American screens. In spite of critical and public backlash, his Alien 3 remains the most technically interesting of that series, and Seven stands as the ...

The Movie Silence of the Lambs starring Jodi foster as agent Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lector was praised as an amazing horror thriller when it was released in 1991. In fact, the movie was even granted the highest honor a cinematic production can receive when it was voted...

\"Auter\" is a French term for the film director who places a personal style on his or her films. It was first coined by Francois Truffaut to describe the mark of a film director on his films. A director can be considered an auteur if about five of his films depict a certain style that is definite...

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in London on August 13, 1899. His father, William Hitchcock, a grocer, and his mother, Emma Whelan Hitchcock, brought him up. As a young boy he loved to travel, and by the time he was eight he had ridden every bus line in London and explored all of its docks and sh...

'An Inspector Calls' has been called a play of social criticism. What is being criticised and how does Priestley use character dramatic devices and structures to convey his point of view? Written in 1945 J.B Priestley`s "An inspector calls" is set almost four decades previous in 1912 at the heart...

Alfred Hitchcock: The Greatest Director Ever! Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art filmmaking with great audience popularity. Throughout his career he gave his audiences more pleasure than they could bask for. The consistency of quality plot lines a...

JAWS was the box-office sensation of 1975 and the number-one hit movie of the decade until 1977's STAR WARS, at a time when the success or failure of a few blockbusters began to determine the course of the entire motion picture industry. Similar to several of ...

What is it that after all these years that can keep a reader glued to a novel? What is it that keeps the pages of a novel flipping? What is it that can make an hour seem like ten minutes? The answer is suspense: each novel of this genre constantly repeats the same steps over and over, yet each ...

Sequence Analysis Assignment "Rear Window," is a classical Hollywood mystery capturing many aspects of human curiosity and society as it was in the twentieth century. Through restricted narration Alfred Hitchcock not only portrayed human curiosity, but also awakened a stream of suspen...

Alfred Hitchcock was the master of horror thrillers- a genre that he single- handedly created and developed. Hitchcock's films were meant to evoke a blood-curling response from the viewers and the two films that managed to achieve that completely were Psycho and The Birds. The Birds was released ...

Both, "Enemy of the State" and 1984 are great peaces of work. You can see that the authors and directors put a lot of effort in to them. The author or 1984 is George Orwell. He is well known for his literature, especially Animal Farm which he wrote in 1945, and of course a great politic...

The opening scene of a film establishes what sort of film is to follow and the tone that will be taken. If the opening scene does not do this, it may lose the audience before long. The audience wants to know what it is watching and decides how to watch the film based on the opening scene. If the ...

J.B.Priestley was born on the 13thSeptember 1894, in a middle class home in Bradford, Yorkshire, which was a large industrial area that produced cotton in the mills. Priestley grew up in a thoroughly middle class home in a place where socialist ideals thrived, and was proud of the fact that his gran...

CLONING The advance of technology has awakened an enormous potential for both good and evil. Within the last two decades scientists have developed great advances in science about reproduction and genetic engineering leading to cloning. This has created sharpest controversies involving opposing ...

"Enduring Love," as written by Ian McEwan is the story of a disturbing incident, and how the central protagonists deal with the consequent events. The reader is told this story through its main protagonist, Joe. Through out the novel there is a lack of trust between the reader and Joe as h...

The Matrix (1999) is an extension of the existentialist motifs of the mid 20th Century set in the 23rd, for its obvious influences from the American Noir Style. This is apparent when looking at the five points of this existentialism. First, Thomas A. Anderson (Keanu Reeves), a.k.a. \"Neo,\" is por...

The title statement is a very definite opinion, a one-sided argument that leaves little room for doubt. It's certainly a view that research can support, but also a view that can be challenged. Our society has unfortunately experienced a turbo-charging of occasional mass murderers, for which vio...

"There is indeed a dream-like quality to the convolutions of the narrative". [Walker: 1993 (ed. Cameron)] Walker made this comment on the film "The Big Sleep" (1946), yet it can easily be applied to other early film noir, such as "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), and "S...

The Silence of the Lambs took the Academy Awards by storm in 1992, winning all five major categories, direction, screenplay, acting and Best Motion Picture; beating the odds in more ways than one. Dark psychological thrillers rarely win Best Picture (the last occasion was back in 1940, Hitchcock&ap...

Michael Mann's life is not as open and public as many of his colleagues and rivals in Hollywood, but over the last few years he has been brought into the forefront through his increasingly impressive work, which will hit a peak this year with the release of his latest offering, Ali....

This paper is going to look at Poe from a psychological perspective. There seems to be few attempts to look at the psychological causes of humor in Poe's work, and how his personal life may have had an impact on his writings. Many of Poe's tales are distinguished by the author's un...