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Also by David Thomson:

Moments That Made The Movies, October 2013
Hardcover
The Moment Of Psycho, December 2009
Hardcover

THE MOMENT OF PSYCHO
By: David Thomson

How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America To Love Murder

Basic Books
December 2009
On Sale: November 24, 2009
192 pages
ISBN: 0465003397
EAN: 9780465003396
Hardcover
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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 industry—even America itself—would never be the same. In The Moment of Psycho, film critic David Thomson situates Psycho in Alfred Hitchcock’s 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 film—and, as Thomson brilliantly demonstrates, still does.

Media Buzz

On Point - May 14, 2010
On The Media - December 26, 2009