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The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Moment of PsychoRenowned film critic David Thomson plumbs the horror and inspiration of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest film.
Full description- Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
- Published: 03 December 2009
- Format: Hardback 192 pages
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- Categories: Film Theory & Criticism | Individual Film Directors, Film-makers | Film: Styles & Genres
- ISBN 13: 9780465003396 ISBN 10: 0465003397
- Sales rank: 383,835
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Full description for The Moment of Psycho
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 not just a sensation in film: it altered the very nature of our desires. Sex, violence, and horror took on new life. "Psycho," all of a sudden, represented all America wanted from a film--and, as Thomson brilliantly demonstrates, still does.
