The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465020704 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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GOOD READ Amazon Customer I've seen both the original Psycho made in the early 60's and the remake from 1998 which I liked even though the original was better. Book is interesting reading.. "Five Stars" according to Samantha V.. AMAZING read!. Cockamamie!!! Richard Masloski I get a kick out of books with grandiose subtitles anymore - there are so many of them! And the subtitles hardly EVER deliver what they claim they will deliver if only you'll shell out the bucks for the book - in this case $22.95 for 167 pages (how much is that per page?). The subtitle: HOW ALFRED HITCHCOCK TAUGHT AMERICA TO LOVE MURDER is gimmicky and catchy and a publisher's and author's dream. But in this case, David Thomson offers next to naught in edifying us as to HOW Hitch TAUGHT we Americans to LOVE murder. It just isn't there, folks.What is there, in this trifling effort to seemingly make a
He lives in San Francisco with his family.. English-American writer David Thomson is the author of many books on film, including Have You Seen?” A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films, which the New York Times called, passionate, illuminating, rich, and eccentric”; and the massively influential Biographical Dictionary of Film called the best book on the movies ever
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. It killed off its star in forty minutes. Psycho, all of a sudden, represented all America wanted from a film—and, as Thomson brilliantly demonstrates, still does.. 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. It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months
From Booklist In this compact book—extended essay, really—the arguably most provocative and acerbic of major film critics (see the plethoric Have You Seen ?, 2008) concentrates on a single work, Alfred Hitchcock’s influential Psycho. He concludes with an analysis of Psycho’s impact, including an annotated list of films it influenced, especially in its treatment of sex and violence, from James Bond flicks to David Lynch’s and Quentin Tarantino’s bloodbaths. After an introductory passage on the film’s genesis, Thomson offers a close reading distinguished by insight and illumination, particularly about the proble