Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho A Casebook

by Kolker, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780195169201
• ISBN10: 0195169204
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Robert Kolker is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Table of Contents

1 "Good Evening ...": Alfred Hitchcock Talks to François Truffaut about "Pure Cinema," Playing His Audience Like an Organ, and Psycho	3	(20)
2 Introduction	23	(6)
ROBERT KOLKER
3 The Inception	29	(28)
STEPHEN REBELLO
From-Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho	30	(27)
4 Early Reception	57	(4)
BOSLEY CROWTHER
Hitchcock's 'Psycho' Bows at 2 Houses	57	(2)
Psycho Entry for "Ten Best Films"	59	(2)
5 The Building of a Reputation	61	(40)
JEAN DOUCHET
Hitch and His Audience	62	(12)
ROBIN WOOD
Psycho	74	(11)
RAYMOND DURGNAT
Psycho	85	(16)
6 Psycho's Music	101	(18)
ROYAL S. BROWN
Herrmann, Hitchcock, and the Music of the Irrational	102	(17)
7 Psycho and the Gaze	119	(28)
GEORGE TOLES
"If Thine Eye Offend Thee...": Psycho and the Art of Infection	120	(27)
8 Psychoanalytical Approaches	147	(16)
ROBERT SAMUELS
Epilogue: Psycho and the Horror of the Bi-Textual Unconscious	149	(14)
9 Gender, Reception, and the Postmodern	163	(42)
LINDA WILLIAMS
Discipline and Fun: Psycho and Postmodern Cinema	164	(41)
10 The Man Who Knew More Than Too Much	205	(52)
ROBERT KOLKER
The Form, Structure, and Influence of Psycho	206	(51)
Bibliography	257	(4)
Film Credits	261