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Hitchcock deserves his status as an auteur. Explain why this is so making reference to the methods he uses to create suspense and horror in
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Hitchcock deserves his status as an auteur. Explain why this is so making reference to the methods he uses to create suspense and horror in " Psycho". Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born August 13, 1899, Leytonstone, England, and died in 1980 in Los Angeles, USA, of liver and heart problems. He went to Ignatius College in London, to the School of Engineering and Navigation, and then to the University of London. He started his film career in 1919 illustrating title cards for silent films at Paramount 's Famous Players-Laskey Studio in London. There he learned scripting, editing and art direction and rose to assistant director in 1922. By 1925, he had directed his first finished film, " The Pleasure Garden" shot in Munich. His breakthrough film, "The Lodger", came a year later. Alfred Hitchcock directed over 50 films in total, including "Vertigo" (1958), "Psycho" (1960) and "The Birds" (1963), and they...
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