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Title: Cutting the flow: thinking Psycho
Author/Creator: Schaffer, Bill
Description: The shower scene from Psycho (1960) almost certainly qualifies as the most referenced and parodied in the history of cinema. In this paper I hope to take the art of Psycho-analysis through one more twist. It is my desire here neither to dispel nor to expose the fascination which the film continues to exert upon cinema-goers, movie-makers, feminists, and scholars of film around the world, but to take the evident charisma of Psycho seriously and follow it to the limit. Unashamedly and without reservation, I construct Psycho as a whole - and the shower scene in particular - as if it provided a unique demonstration of the power of film in general, indeed, as if it constituted the exemplary exception in the history of popular film.
Relation: For the Love of Fear: the Alfred Hitchcock Conference. Senses of Cinema (Sydney 31 March - 2 April, 2000)
Relation: http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/6/psycho.html
Date: 2000
Publisher: Senses of Cinema Inc.
Keyword(s): Alfred Hitchcock; Psycho; film studies; themes in cinema
Resource Type: conference paper
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/29526
Identifier: ISSN:1443-4059

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