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Moment of Psycho

By David Thomson

Moment of Psycho

By David Thomson

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
2010-11-09
Publication Date:
2010-11-09
Publisher:
Hachette Book Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0465020704
ISBN13:
9780465020706
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
13
Maximum Reading Age:
99
Weight:
282 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
207 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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