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03128aam a2200385Ki 4500 001 A07506F290F111EA86A69E4897128E48 003 SILO 005 20200508010100 008 100429s2010 nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780465020706 020 $a 0465020704 035 $a (OCoLC)610157387 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d KYB $d UKSOM $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d NZAUC $d ZAB $d LTU $d OCLCA $d UKMGB $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 082 04 $a 791.4372 100 1 $a Thomson, David, $d 1941- 245 14 $a The moment of Psycho : $b how Alfred Hitchcock taught America to love murder / $c David Thomson. 264 1 $a New York : $b Basic Books, $c 2010. 300 $a 183 pages : $b illustration ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-173) and index. 505 0 $a 1960 -- Continuity -- Room service -- Housekeeping -- Hitch-cock -- Other bodies in the swamp -- A noir society -- Lonely people -- On the way to Fairvale. 520 $a In "The Moment of Psycho," film critic David Thomson situates "Psycho" in Alfred Hitchcock's career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson brilliantly demonstrates how Hitchcock's creation represented all America wanted from a film--and still does. 520 $a "It was made like a television film, shot with a tight budget and completed in less than three months. It killed its star off after forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in American film. Nothing like Psycho had existed before; the movie industry - even America itself-would never be the same. In The Moment of Psycho , David Thomson - one of America's most respected film critics - situates Psycho in Alfred Hitchcock's career and masterfully recreates the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto screens. Thomson shows how in 1959, Hitchcock, then 60 years old, made Psycho as an attempt to break personally with the dullness of his own settled domesticity - a struggle which then mirrored the sexual, creative, and political ferment which would soon overtake the nation. Suddenly sex, violence and horror took on new life. Censorship fell away, and Janet Leigh screaming naked in the shower was its patron saint. Psycho, all of a sudden, represented all America wanted from a film - and, as The Moment of Psycho demonstrates, it still does"--Publisher's description. 600 10 $a Hitchcock, Alfred, $d 1899-1980 $x Criticism and interpretation. 630 00 $a Psycho (Motion picture : 1960) 600 17 $a Hitchcock, Alfred, $d 1899-1980. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00032434 630 07 $a Psycho (Motion picture : 1960) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01716091 650 0 $a Thrillers (Motion pictures) $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Thrillers (Motion pictures) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01746079 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20210728011008.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A07506F290F111EA86A69E4897128E48 994 $a 92 $b UINInitiate Another SILO Locator Search