thesis summary
TRANSCRIPT
Questions
• What makes these stationary images reminiscent of film, a medium of motion pictures?
• How does Hopper create or allude to narratives?
• How did the artist, inspired by the film industry, eventually influence one of its most well known directors?
• Have these relationships altered cultural conventions and reception?
Thesis Statement
“Due to his realistic portrayals of American life
with cinematic linear narratives, Edward Hopper
influenced the films of Alfred Hitchcock, who,
through direct formal and thematic references,
altered the critical and popular reception of
Hopper’s work.”
Hopper’s Personal Relationship to Cinema
When having difficulty
painting, Hopper said:
“I go to the movies for
a week or more. I go
on a regular movie
binge.”
Preparatory Studies for Office at Night 1940
Storyboarding & Structuralism: Hopper’s Narrative Construction
Storyboarding & Structuralism: Hitchcock’s Narrative Construction
Dorothea Holt Production Design Drawings for Shadow of a Doubt 1943
Hopper’s Influence on Hitchcock: Voyeurism & Rear Window
Night Windows, 1928, Oil on canvas
Film Still (5:08), in Rear Window, 1954