The basis for Alfred Hitchcock's iconic horror film of the same name, Bloch's"Psycho" is back in this all-new edition.
... and instead creates a sense of stasis that can be seen as a part of the feminine stereotypes (darkness, passivity) of the title sequence and its imagery, not to mention the whole Orphic bent of Vertigo's narrative and structure.
Its themes are of course not new—obvious forerunners include Macbeth and Conrad's Heart of Darkness—but the intensity and horror of their treatment and the fact that they are here grounded in sex belong to the age that has witnessed on ...
The innovative cinematography, the unsettling musical score, and the most famous twenty-five seconds in motion picture history - the stabbing scene in the shower at the Bates Motel - have...
The legendary Norman Bates returns... The original Psycho novel by Robert Bloch was published in 1959 and became an instant hit, leading to the classic Alfred Hitchcock film a year later.
An important book.” —Katherine Dunn, bestselling author of Geek Love Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards, coming in January.
Stephen Rebello brings to life the creation of one of Hollywood’s most iconic films, from the story of Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein, the real-life inspiration for the character of Norman Bates, to Hitchcock’s groundbreaking achievements ...
Hitchcock's trust in the story proved him right, because as the book seemed to be a winner, the film achieved a groundbreaking success until today.
Faced with a blizzard of works of varying quality dealing with the serial killer, Simpson has ruled out the catalog approach in this study in favor of in-depth an analysis of the best American work in the genre.
This is a brilliant study of one scene in one movie: the shower scene from Psycho.
. . With an introduction by Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time.