The Moment of Psycho

The Moment of Psycho
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9780465020096
ISBN-13 : 0465020097
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Book Synopsis The Moment of Psycho by : David Thomson

Download or read book The Moment of Psycho written by David Thomson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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