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A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’ PDF

313 Pages·2010·4.093 MB·English
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by Raymond Durgnat| 2010| 313 pages| 4.093| English

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Upon 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 or she watches the film, and to think afresh about questions of spectatorship, Hollywood narrative codes, psycho-analysis, editing and shot composition.In his introduction to the new edition, Henry K. Miller presents A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’ as the culmination of Durgnat's decades-long campaign to correct what he called film studies' ‘Grand Error’. In the course of expounding Durgnat's root-and-branch challenge to our inherited shibboleths about Hollywood cinema in general and Hitchcock in particular, Miller also describes the eclectic intellectual tradition to which Durgnat claimed allegiance. This band of amis inconnus, among them William Empson, Edgar Morin and Manny Farber, had at its head Durgnat's mentor Thorold Dickinson. The book's story begins in the early 1960s, when Dickinson made the long hard look the basis of his pioneering film course at the Slade School of Fine Art, and Psycho became one of its first objects.

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Author:Raymond Durgnat
Publication Year:2010
ISBN:9781844575602
Pages:313
Language:English
File Size:4.093
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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