Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin

by David Greven

Book Overview

Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock's legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hollywood-Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin-whose work suggests the pornographic male gaze that emerged in Hitchcock's depiction of the voyeuristic, homoerotically inclined American man. Combining queer theory with a psychoanalytic perspective, David Greven begins with a reconsideration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292756763
• ISBN13: 9780292756762
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"