Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho : a casebook / edited by Robert Kolker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kolker, Robert Phillip.

Series:

Casebooks in criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycho (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

x, 261 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Casebooks in Criticism offer analytical and interpretive frameworks for understanding key texts in world literature and film. Each casebook reprints documents relating to a work's historical context and reception, presents the best critical studies, and, when possible, features an interview with the author. Accessible and informative to scholars, students, and nonspecialist readers alike, the books in this series provide a wide range of critical and informative commentaries on major texts.

Contents:

The inception: Stephen Rebello, From Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho

Early reception: Bosley Crowther, Hitchcock's 'Psycho' bows at 2 Houses ; Psycho entry for "ten best films"

The building of a reputation: Jean Douchet, Hitch and his audience ; Robin Wood, Psycho ; Raymond Durgnat, Psycho

Psycho's music: Royal S. Brown, Herrmann, Hitchcock, and the music of the irrational

Psycho and the gaze: George Toles, "If thine eye offend thee ...": Psycho and the art of infection

Psychoanalytical approaches: Robert Samuels, Epilogue: Psycho and the horror of the bi-textual unconscious

Gender, reception, and the postmodern: Linda Williams, Discipline and fun: Psycho and postmodern cinema

The man who knew more than too much: Robert Kolker, The form, structure, and influence of Psycho.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259).

ISBN:

0195169190

0195169204

OCLC:

52757612