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  The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder (Paperback) By (author) David Thomson

  

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  Short Description for The Moment of PsychoIt was made like a television film, shot with a tight budget and completed in less than three months. Nothing like Psycho had existed before; the movie industry - even America itself - would never be the same. This title situates "Psycho" in Alfred Hitchcock's career and recreates the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto screens.
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  • Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
  • Published: 06 January 2011
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Films, Cinema | Film Theory & Criticism | Individual Film Directors, Film-makers
  • ISBN 13: 9780465020706 ISBN 10: 0465020704
  • Sales rank: 394,542

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• It was made like a television film, shot with a tight budget and completed in less than three months. It killed its star off after forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in American film. Nothing like Psycho had existed before; the movie industry - even America itself-would never be the same. In "The Moment of Psycho", David Thomson - one of America's most respected film critics - situates "Psycho" in Alfred Hitchcock's career and masterfully recreates the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto screens. Thomson shows how in 1959, Hitchcock, then 60 years old, made "Psycho" as an attempt to break personally with the dullness of his own settled domesticity - a struggle which then mirrored the sexual, creative, and political ferment which would soon overtake the nation. Suddenly sex, violence and horror took on new life. Censorship fell away, and Janet Leigh screaming naked in the shower was its patron saint. "Psycho", all of a sudden, represented all America wanted from a film - and, as "The Moment of Psycho" demonstrates, it still does.