The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder by David Thomson

The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder

David Thomson

183 pages first pub 2009 (view editions)

nonfiction history dark slow-paced
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It killed off its star after forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in American film. Punctuated by shrieking strings that seared the national consciousness, nothing like Psycho had existed before. ...

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