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834 Search results for "psycho"

eyes without a face

Crime · Gothic · Horror · Melodrama · Photo Essays

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To Cut or Not to Cut? The POV Shots in Eyes Without a Face (and how they differ from those in Psycho)

  • March 16, 2022

Franju demonstrates how beauty hides pain, until pain becomes beautiful. * * * Georges Franju’s Les yeux sans visage/Eyes Without a Face is a reliably haunting film, a beautiful nightmare[…]

Kubrick Scorsese

Directors · Drama · Essays

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Troubling Mastery: Scorsese’s and Kubrick’s Psychosexual New York Odysseys

  • October 19, 2020

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position. – W. H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux-Arts” (1940) “It’s also a film I cherish[…]

Psycho

Comedy · Crime · Drama

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Psycho as Comedy: The Joke’s on Everyone

  • May 28, 2020

We can further associate the filmmaker, the man with whom we’ve placed our narrative trust, with the “psycho” of both the title and our typical image of one, the latter[…]

Crime · Drama · Reviews

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Watch It Again! Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

  • May 12, 2017

Hitchcock’s one-word titles have never been so instructive. Psycho is the feeling of being preyed on by your self, as by one of Norman’s stuffed birds. It is the primal[…]

Noir · Reviews

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Ida Lupino’s American Psycho: The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

  • February 27, 2014

“In The Hitch-Hiker, Lupino offers an unusually sustained visual examination of the average male body that is then contrasted against the anarchic body of the Psycho. Myers is often shown[…]

Cach

Essays · Reviews

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Hidden Within Ourselves: A Psychoanalytic Examination of the Effects of Repression in Michael Haneke’s Caché

  • January 31, 2013

“Caché lays bare a heavy psychological truth about the collective unconscious — without submitting to another perspective, we may not be able to recognize and acknowledge the abject parts of our own selves, even when they are clearly presented to us, hidden in plain sight.”

Actors & Personalities

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Anthony Perkins: Forever Psycho

  • April 30, 2012

“Although he at first resisted, Perkins returned to Norman Bates again and again, in one form or other. Norman’s twitchy eccentricity seeped into many of Perkins’ post-Psycho performances that preceded the run of sequels.”

Essays · Horror

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Boring Psycho? “I’m Never Satisfied with the Ordinary.”

  • January 31, 2011

Boredom never looked so good Psycho boring? What blasphemy! Psycho is unusual for many reasons, but in some ways the most important is the mere fact that it is in black-and-white. By[…]

Friday the 13th

Essays · Horror

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Why Do We Crave Horror? Evolutionary Psychology and Viewer Response to Horror Films

  • April 30, 2010

“We do not realize that ‘normal’ behavior needs to be explained at all.” —Laura Cosmides “Monsters today seem to be everywhere, and they cannot be destroyed. ” —Stephen Prince

Books

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Book review: The Moment of Psycho, by David Thomson

  • February 23, 2010

The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder, by David Thomson. New York: Basic Books, 2009. Hardcover. $22.95. 183pp. ISBN 978-0-465-00339-6. Feeling a little psycho these[…]

Reviews

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Women in Wonderland, Part 3 – Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock 1960)

  • February 10, 2009

  The Alices in flight, those beautiful women alone in their cars on the run – Sylvia Kristel in Alice ou la Dernière Fugue, Candace Hilligoss in Carnival of Souls,[…]

Essays · LGBT & Queer

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Psycho: Queering Hitchcock’s Classic

  • July 31, 2008

We have met the cross-dressing closeted maniac, and he is us

Movies · Reviews

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Anorexic Logic: On American Psycho

  • May 1, 2007

“Nothing evokes the end of the world more than a man running straight ahead on a beach … cocooned in the solitary sacrifice of his energy … In a sense,[…]

Essays · Genres · Horror · Movies · Reviews

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Who Owns Norman Bates? On Psycho IV, III, II, I, and More

  • November 1, 2006

“Look at yourself,” she says, “that’s not who you are anymore.” Dedicated to Joseph Stefano (1922-2006) and Anthony Perkins (1932-1992) Anthony Perkins was dying. On March 27, 1990, The National[…]

DVD & Blu-ray · SF & Fantasy

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Of Psychotic Environments and Corporate Hallucinations: The Animatrix on DVD

  • July 31, 2003

Masters of anime riff on The Matrix in this sizzling collection of nine shorts

Reviews

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American Psycho: If looks could kill, this dude wouldn’t need a blade

  • July 1, 2000

The year is 1987. Wall Street smoothie Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is preparing to meet the new day. As he anoints his buff-enough-for-Bay-Watch bod with an endless series of unguents, emollients,[…]

Crime · Directors · Reviews

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Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid! Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho

  • April 1, 2000

Hitch’s – and by now the whole damn culture’s – seminal Oedipal nightmare revisited Read the companion photo essay “Alfred Hitchcock: A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone”[…]

Reviews

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A Touch of Psycho? Welles’s Influence on Hitchcock

  • September 10, 1995

Hitchcock has always been considered a director sui generis. John W. Hall looks at Psycho and Touch of Evil to show that even Hitch couldn’t resist the charms — and stylistic strategies — of Orson Welles.[…]

James Bond Lacan

Philosophy · Theory · Thrillers & Action · Uncategorized

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The Unconscious with Bond and Lacan: Definition by Deviation

  • March 1, 2023

This article argues that the paradox of James Bond’s character (that he accords with the idea he represents precisely by deviating from it) is central to a Lacanian understanding of[…]

Helen Slater

Actors & Personalities · Comedy · Feminism · Indies · Interviews · SF & Fantasy

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The Secret of Her Success: An Interview with Helen Slater

  • February 16, 2023

For me, on Supergirl, I was 100% in. It was the biggest opportunity that ever happened to me, and the process of making the film was very nourishing. I think[…]

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