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With this book, Philip Skerry makes an ambitious and largely successful effort to restore perspective to the debate that has swirled around Psycho since Hitchcock first ripped back the shower curtain of our expectations in 1960 and plunged his knife into the collective cinematic consciousness. John Baxter, Film International Psycho in the Shower is a multi-dimensional study of Psycho's astonishing shower scene. Philip J. Skerry shows how it may be the most significant and influential film scene of all and substantiates this claim by providing chapters on the evolution of the scene in Hitchcock.

Psycho (Motion picture : 1960) --- Psyco (Motion picture : 1960) --- Film theory & criticism

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The essays presented in this book focus on Psycho, both the novel by Robert Bloch (1950) and the film by Alfred Hitchcock (1960). Therefore, the different approaches range from film studies to literary criticism. Norman Bates has become an icon of the late twentieth century horror genre, and the movie set the basis for later cinematic developments. Over 50 years after the release of the book and the movie it inspired, new readings, revisions and adaptations of the domestic tragedy of Norman B...

Hitchcock, Alfred, --- Bloch, Robert, --- Chitskok, Alphrent, --- Hīchakāk, Al-Frad , --- Hitchcock, Alfred Joseph, --- Hsi-chʻü-kʻao-kʻo, --- היצ'קוק, אלפרד, --- هيچکاک، الفرد، --- History and criticism. --- Psycho (Motion picture : 1960) --- Psyco (Motion picture : 1960) --- Hitchcok, Alfred

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Drawing from extensive interviews with the screenwriters and other film technicians who worked for Hitchcock, the authors illustrate how much of the filmmaking process took place not on the set or in front of the camera, but in the adaptation of the sources, the mutual creation of plot and characters by the director and the writers.

Screenwriters --- Film adaptations --- Motion picture authorship. --- Motion picture plays, American --- Film authorship --- Film-making (Motion pictures) --- Film scriptwriting --- Filmmaking (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture plays --- Motion picture scriptwriting --- Motion picture writing --- Motion pictures --- Movie-making --- Moviemaking --- Moving-picture authorship --- Screen writing --- Screenplay writing --- Screenwriting --- Scriptwriting, Film --- Scriptwriting, Motion picture --- Authorship --- History and criticism. --- Play-writing --- Hitchcock, Alfred, --- Chitskok, Alphrent, --- Hīchakāk, Al-Frad , --- Hitchcock, Alfred Joseph, --- Hsi-chʻü-kʻao-kʻo, --- היצ'קוק, אלפרד, --- هيچکاک، الفرد، --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Marnie (Motion picture) --- Birds (Motion picture) --- Psycho (Motion picture : 1960) --- Alfred Hitchcock's The birds (Motion picture) --- Uccelli (Motion picture) --- Psyco (Motion picture : 1960) --- Psycho (Motion picture : 1960). --- Birds (Motion picture). --- Marnie (Motion picture). --- Hitchcok, Alfred