| Description |
1 online resource (183 pages) |
| Contents |
1960 -- Continuity -- Room service -- Housekeeping -- Hitch-cock -- Other bodies in the swamp -- A noir society -- Lonely people -- On the way to Fairvale |
| Summary |
It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months. It killed off its star in forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in American film, punctuated by shrieking strings that seared the national consciousness. Nothing like Psycho had existed before; the movie industry--even America itself--would never be the same. In The Moment of Psycho, film critic David Thomson situates Psycho in Alfred Hitchcock's career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson shows that Psycho was |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-173) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 fast |
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Psycho (Motion picture : 1960) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88192020
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Psycho (Motion picture : 1960) fast |
| Subject |
Thrillers (Motion pictures) -- United States -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
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Thrillers (Motion pictures)
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0465020097 |
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9780465020096 |
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9780465020706 |
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0465020704 |
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9786612449802 |
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6612449802 |
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