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A Long Hard Look at ´Psycho´
Raymond Durgnat
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Hardback. Raymond Durgnat's classic study of Hitchcock's Psycho provides a minute analysis of this remarkable film, considering how it enables us to think afresh about questions of spectatorship, Hollywood narrative codes, psychoanalysis, editing and shot composition. This new edition includes an original introduction by Henry K. Miller. Series: BFI Silver. Num Pages: 312 pages, 195 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 142 x 28. Weight in Grams: 557.
U?pon its release in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho divided critical opinion, with several leading film critics condemning Hitchcock's apparent encouragement of the audience's identification with the gruesome murder that lies at the heart of the film. Such antipathy did little to harm Psycho's box-office returns, and it would go on to be acknowledged as one of the greatest film thrillers, with scenes and characters that are among the most iconic in all cinema. In his illuminating study of Psycho, Raymond Durgnat provides a minute analysis of its unfolding narrative, enabling us to consider what happens to the viewer as he ... Read more
U?pon its release in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho divided critical opinion, with several leading film critics condemning Hitchcock's apparent encouragement of the audience's identification with the gruesome murder that lies at the heart of the film. Such antipathy did little to harm Psycho's box-office returns, and it would go on to be acknowledged as one of the greatest film thrillers, with scenes and characters that are among the most iconic in all cinema. In his illuminating study of Psycho, Raymond Durgnat provides a minute analysis of its unfolding narrative, enabling us to consider what happens to the viewer as he ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
312
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Series
BFI Silver
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844573592
SKU
V9781844573592
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About Raymond Durgnat
RAYMOND DURGNAT (1932–2002) was the author of many groundbreaking books about the cinema, among them Films and Feelings (1967), A Mirror for England (1970), Sexual Alienation in the Cinema (1972), The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Renoir (both 1974), and a study of WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1999) in the BFI Film Classics series. HENRY ... Read more
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