Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980), the “Master of Suspense”, was a English film director, who was well known for his use of suspense and psychological elements to shock and surprise his audience. Hitchcock was known for his use of recurring themes, motifs and plot devices, such as the use...
These three processes are the conduits through which the body in the Gothic genre, in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and in the art of taxidermy will be explored. Taxidermy shares one of the central concerns of the Gothic: its preoccupation with the past, and an attempt at preserving the...
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This article attempts to read Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) as a film that belongs to the genre of the corporeal Gothic. It attempts to study the fluidity of human anatomy, as shown in Psycho, through the lens of taxidermy. In Psycho, Norman Bates pr
Daniel Radcliffe, born in London, found fame and fortune playing Harry Potter in the enormously popular movies based on the equally popular books. On the London stage, he won rave reviews in "Equus." When he played a magazine fact-checker in Broadway's "The Lifespan of a Fact," he did...
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