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The Psycho records
- Title
- The Psycho records / Laurence A. Rickels.
- Author
- Rickels, Laurence A.
- Publication
- New York : Wallflower Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MFL 16-4746 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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- Description
- x, 232 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films. American soldiers returning from World War II were called 'psychos' if they exhibited mental illness. Robert Bloch and Alfred Hitchcock turned the term into a catch-all phrase for a range of psychotic and psychopathic symptoms or dispositions. They transferred a war disorder to the American heartland. Drawing on his experience with German film, Hitchcock packed inside his shower stall the essence of schauer, the German cognate meaning 'horror.' Later serial horror film production has post-traumatically flashed back to Hitchcock's shower scene. In the end, though, this book argues the effect is therapeutically finite. This extensive case study summons the genealogical readings of philosopher and psychoanalyst Laurence Rickels. The book opens not with another reading of Hitchcock's 1960 film but with an evaluation of various updates to vampirism over the years. It concludes with a close look at the rise of demonic and infernal tendencies in horror movies since the 1990s and the problem of the psycho as our most uncanny double in close quarters"--Publisher's website.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-224), filmography (pages 214-218), and index.
- Call Number
- MFL 16-4746
- ISBN
- 0231181124
- 9780231181129
- 9780231181136
- 0231181132
- OCLC
- 947074761
- 947074761
- Author
- Rickels, Laurence A., author.
- Title
- The Psycho records / Laurence A. Rickels.
- Publisher
- New York : Wallflower Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-224), filmography (pages 214-218), and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 16-4746