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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and taxidermy : fashioning corpses / Subarna Mondal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mondal, Subarna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psycho (Motion picture : 1960).
- Taxidermy in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 158 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
- Summary:
- "An investigation into how Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) significantly contributes to the Body Horrors of mainstream narrative cinema through the literal and metaphoric use of the cultural practice of Victorian and modern taxidermy"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Speciesism and sexism: Norman Bates and her Victorian predecessors
- Norma's home and Norman's diorama: taxidermy, longing and nostalgia
- Illusory souvenirs: memory, beauty, and Hitchcock's women in Psycho, Vertigo, The birds and Marnie
- Hitchcock's installation: Psycho's shower stabbing, Frenzy's serial strangling and the beginning of slashers
- Fellow-stuffers: post-Psycho body horrors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 07, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Mondal, Subarna. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and taxidermy
- ISBN:
- 9798765101216
- 9798765101193
- 9798765101209
- OCLC:
- 1395904759
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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