Moment of Psycho How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder

Name: Moment of Psycho How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder
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ISBN: 9780465020706

ISBN-10: 0465020704

ISBN-13: 9780465020706

Edition: 2010

Authors: David Thomson

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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. The shrieking strings of the soundtrack seared the national consciousness--nothing likePsychohad existed before.Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of Hollywood, renowned film critic David Thomson vividly shows how, in 1959, Hitchcock masterfully madePsychoto reflect the sexual, creative, and political ferment that would soon overtake the nation.Psycho, all of a sudden, represented all America wanted from a film--and, asThe Moment of Psychobrilliantly demonstrates, it still does.

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 11/9/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

David Thomson, author of“Have You Seen . . . ?”andThe New Biographical Dictionary of Film, is a regular contributor toThe Guardian,The Independent, The New York Times, Movieline, The New Republic,andSalon.He lives in San Francisco. From the Hardcover edition.




1960



Continuity



Room Service



Housekepping



Hitch-Cock



Other Bodies in the Swamp



A Noir Society



Lonely People



On the Way to Fairvale


Acknowledgments


Credits


Index