Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook

Book Overview

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook collects some of the finest essays on this groundbreaking film--a film that is ideal for teaching the language of cinema and the ways in which strong filmmakers can break Hollywood conventions. Psycho is a film that can be used to present the structures of composition and cutting, narrative and genre building, and point of view. The film is also a highpoint of the horror genre and an instigator of all the slasher...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195169204
• ISBN13: 9780195169201
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"