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'Tunnel shots' in Hitchcock's films
Hitchcock used a particular kind of shot that shows an individual at the end of a long narrow vista, typically through a hallway or one or more doorways. This narrow perspective, labeled "tunnel shot" by analysts, simulaneously makes the individual seem both isolated and vulnerable. |
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Sabotage, 1936
Mrs. Verloc after killing her husband |
Rope, 1948
The housekeeper clears the buffet, with the trunk (holding a body) in the foreground |
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The Wrong Man, 1957
Hitchcock's opening statement |
The Wrong Man
Manny leaves his wife in the mental hospital |
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Stage Fright, 1950
The police station |
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Vertigo, 1958
Midge exits the hospital (and the movie) |
The Birds, 1963
Lydia about the discover a horror |
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Psycho, 1959
Norman Bates after leaving Marion |
Psycho
Lila Crane waits for news |
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