It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months. It killed off its star in 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; the movie industryeven America itselfwould never be the same. In The Moment of Psycho, film critic David Thomson situates Psycho in Alfred Hitchcocks career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson shows that Psycho was not just a sensation in film: it altered the very nature of our desires. Sex, violence, and horror took on new life. Psycho, all of a sudden, represented all America wanted from a filmand, as Thomson brilliantly demonstrates, still does.
- ISBN10 0465003397
- ISBN13 9780465003396
- Publish Date 1 November 2009 (first published 1 September 2009)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 25 January 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Basic Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English