The moment of Psycho : how Alfred Hitchcock taught America to love murder
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
Electronic books
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9780465020096, 9780465020706, 9786612449802, 0465020097, 0465020704, 6612449802
501415677
1960
Continuity
Room service
Housekeeping
Hitch-cock
Other bodies in the swamp
A noir society
Lonely people
On the way to Fairvale
English