1. Alfred Joseph Hitchcock<br />Alfred Joseph Hitchcock started out as a decently known English filmmaker and producer before hitting it big time in Hollywood. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. Often regarded as the greatest British filmmaker, he came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britain's Daily Telegraph, which said: quot;
Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands,” Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him. Over a career spanning more than half a century, Hitchcock fashioned for himself a distinctive and recognizable directorial style. Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, murder, and crime.<br />Viewers are made to identify with the camera which moves in a way meant to mimic a person's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism, In clinical psychology, voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviours, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other activity usually considered to be of a private nature. He framed shots to manipulate the feelings of the audience and maximize anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative film editing to demonstrate the point of view of the characters His stories frequently feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside quot;
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female characters.<br />Hitchcock seemed to delight in the technical challenges of film making.<br />No list of suspense or thriller films can be complete without mention of Hitchcock. He helped to shape the modern-day thriller genre, beginning with his early silent film The Lodger (1926), a suspenseful Jack-the-Ripper story, followed by his next thriller Blackmail (1929), his first sound film (but also released in a silent version). Alfred Hitchcock is considered the acknowledged auteur master of the thriller or suspense genre, manipulating his audience's fears and desires, and taking viewers into a state of association with the representation of reality facing the character.<br />Psycho is famed for its shower murder sequence a classic model of shot selection and editing which was startling for its (apparent) nudity, graphic violence and its violation of the narrative convention that makes a protagonist invulnerable. Moreover, the progressive shots of eyes, beginning with an extreme close-up of the killer's peeping eye and ending with the open eye of the murder victim, subtly implied the presence of a third eye the viewer's.<br />