Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho : a casebook / edited by Robert Kolker.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Casebooks in criticism.
Other Authors: Kolker, Robert Phillip
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:Casebooks in criticism.
Subjects:
Psycho (Motion picture)
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:x, 261 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The inception: Stephen Rebello, From Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho
  • Early reception: Bosley Crowther, Hitchcock's 'Psycho' bows at 2 Houses ; Psycho entry for "ten best films"
  • The building of a reputation: Jean Douchet, Hitch and his audience ; Robin Wood, Psycho ; Raymond Durgnat, Psycho
  • Psycho's music: Royal S. Brown, Herrmann, Hitchcock, and the music of the irrational
  • Psycho and the gaze: George Toles, "If thine eye offend thee ...": Psycho and the art of infection
  • Psychoanalytical approaches: Robert Samuels, Epilogue: Psycho and the horror of the bi-textual unconscious
  • Gender, reception, and the postmodern: Linda Williams, Discipline and fun: Psycho and postmodern cinema
  • The man who knew more than too much: Robert Kolker, The form, structure, and influence of Psycho.