TY - BOOK ID - 12062697 TI - The Psycho records PY - 2016 SN - 0231181124 9780231181129 9780231181136 0231181132 0231543492 9780231543491 PB - New York : Wallflower Press, DB - UniCat KW - film KW - filmgeschiedenis KW - filmtheorie KW - twintigste eeuw KW - Hitchcock Alfred KW - Psycho KW - horror KW - Verenigde Staten KW - film en psychoanalyse KW - 791.41 KW - Thrillers (Motion pictures) KW - Slasher films KW - Films d'horreur KW - Films à suspense KW - History and criticism. KW - Histoire et critique KW - Histoire et critique. KW - Film KW - Bodycount films KW - Dead teenager movies KW - Slashers (Motion pictures) KW - Horror films KW - Film thrillers KW - Movie thrillers KW - Psycho thrillers (Motion pictures) KW - Psychological thrillers (Motion pictures) KW - Psychothrillers (Motion pictures) KW - Suspense films KW - Thriller films KW - Thriller movies KW - Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.) KW - Motion pictures KW - Crime films KW - Films à suspense UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12062697 AB - "The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films. American soldiers returning from World War II were called "psychos" if they exhibited mental illness. Robert Bloch and Alfred Hitchcock turned the term into a catch-all phrase for a range of psychotic and psychopathic symptoms or dispositions. They transferred a war disorder to the American heartland. Drawing on his experience with German film, Hitchcock packed inside his shower stall the essence of schauer, the German cognate meaning "horror." Later serial horror film production has post-traumatically flashed back to Hitchcock's shower scene. In the end, though, this book argues the effect is therapeutically finite. This extensive case study summons the genealogical readings of philosopher and psychoanalyst Laurence Rickels. The book opens not with another reading of Hitchcock's 1960 film but with an evaluation of various updates to vampirism over the years. It concludes with a close look at the rise of demonic and infernal tendencies in horror movies since the 1990s and the problem of the psycho as our most uncanny double in close quarters."--Publisher's website. ER -