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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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Non-Fiction
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.
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