Ascertain Ways To Hitchcock's Success

Hitchcock was known to his audiences as the 'Master of Suspense'. He was eccentric, demanding, inventive, impassioned and he had a great sense of British humor. Director of such works as Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds and The 39 steps, Hitchcock told his stories through intelligent plots witty dialogue and a spoonful of mystery and murder. In doing so, he inspired a new generation of filmmakers and revolutionized the thriller genre, making him a legend around the world. His brilliance was sometimes too bright: He was hated as well as loved, oversimplified as well as over analyzed.Just so-called 'the times produce their heroes', the reasons to Hitchcock's success are the environment he was in and also his own efforts. The first chapter tried to find out the factors that form Hitchcock's unique movie style by analysing his personal experience and the particular environment he was in.The second chapter tried to seek for the unique characteristics of Hitchcock's movie style by analysing the composing elements which have appeared repeatedly in his movie such as suspense and object etc.The core of the article is the third chapter which tried to analyse Hitchcock's inner world as a movie creator and his audiences' psychology by using Floyd's psychoanalysis principles and the accepting aesthetics. The chapter also attempted to find out the complicated relationships between his movies and audiences' inner world in order to discover the interactions and aesthetic privity.The final chapter dialectically evaluated the commercial character and artistry of his suspense movie style from the points of view of mass cultures in order to provide Hitchcock's fans with inspirations and spaces for cultural thinking.