... (Pg. 415) Like Truffaut, Raoul Coutard worked as director of photography with prolific and stylistic director Jean-Luc Goddard. Unlike Truffaut, Godard is a "militantly intellectual and ideologically committed filmmaker whose films almost always involve some form of autocritique or interrogation of cinema itself (Pg. 451). He consistently tested the relationship between fiction, reality and instead rejected narrative. By this technique, he ... and his tracking along as he is driving and talking. Godard's conventional style of filmmaking was a great example of a B-film tribute, which chang...

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... mystery with a galaxy of stars. The stars themselves (Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, and Anthony Perkins) were of a younger generation than the top stars Hitchcock had previously employed for his films. Posters for Psycho featured a very lightly dressed Leigh wearing only a brassiere and slip. Hitchcock established a policy whereby viewers would not be permitted into the theatre once the film had ... from the actual crime. Questions as to the specifics were left unanswered, and it was up to the viewer's imagination to wonder about the brutal details. Beyond the reputation his films carried of...

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