learned a new style of filming that is evident in his American movies. Among the peculiar techniques were wide angles, crooked camera shots, and fast motion. He came to America and became one of the countries best-loved directors. Some of his best, and most famous work includes: Psycho, Vertigo, and The Rear Window.For one reason or another the 1950s have slipped past us. Perhaps it was because of the focused efforts of Americans to win World War II and the disappointments of the 1960s (“the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, and the deaths of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are some other type of distractions”). It’s too bad they probably were going to make some good movies. They were an era of economic growth for the "haves" in America, and an era of renewed separation of the races in this country. Brown vs. the Board of Education (1954) signaled the beginning of a new era in race relations in this country. Where were the 1950s?In the 1950s some of America's greatest actors played characters who were past their prime, emotionally vulnerable, with fragile egos. Bette Davis stars as an aging actress manipulated by an aggressive younger actress in All About Eve; Humphrey Bogart plays a broken-down alcoholic in The African Queen and a psychotic naval captain in The Caine Mutiny; Gary Cooper is an aging sheriff who stands down the bad guys one last time (with the help of Grace Kelly) in High Noon; Jimmy Stewart returns to the screen after an interlude as a Western star to appear in two Hitchcock films, Rear Window and Vertigo. In both films he plays middle-aged men who have suffered debilitating injuries psychological and physical.There are a wide variety of genres, which have changed the effects in films. All of these slowly evolved into a completely separate genre. They have been entertaining us and giving us new insights. From Sci-fi , Drama, and Action, these genres h...
