Psycho in the shower
Subtitle: the history of cinema's most famous scene
By: Philip J. Skerry.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780826427694
Subjects: Psycho (Motion picture : 1960)
Description: With this book, Philip Skerry makes an ambitious and largely successful effort to restore perspective to the debate that has swirled around Psycho since Hitchcock first ripped back the shower curtain of our expectations in 1960 and plunged his knife into the collective cinematic consciousness. John Baxter, Film International Psycho in the Shower is a multi-dimensional study of Psycho's astonishing shower scene. Philip J. Skerry shows how it may be the most significant and influential film scene of all and substantiates this claim by providing chapters on the evolution of the scene in Hitchcock.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.