Showing posts with label The Birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Birds. Show all posts
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Knowing Your Endgame

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Flash fiction works well for horror. We have the word from both Edgar Allan Poe, who said that...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Villages Under Attack

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Copyright by Gary L. Pullman In Godzilla (1954) , a radioactive, fire-breathing, dragon-like monster attacks Tokyo. After being...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Dramatic Images

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Instead of writing descriptions, filmmakers project images. As Alfred Hitchcock points out, style con...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Perspective and Setting: An Overlap of Cinematographic and Literary Technique

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In Film Narratology , Peter Verstraten explains how, in adopting the perspective of the birds as ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

"Psycho" and "The Birds": The Reason They Endure

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Looking back at some of the “classic” horror movies of the forties, fifties, and sixties, it’s difficu...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Metaphorical Enhancements

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In his excellent study of cinematic metaphor, Metaphor and Film , Trevor Whittock lists various types of f...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Horror as Image and Word

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman What’s scary? Deprivation. No, I don’t mean missing a meal or not being able to buy an outfit. I mean not ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Horror Movie Remakes

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Copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Janet Leigh, Psycho (1960) An old joke plays upon the sameness of the names of the Empire State and its m...