Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and taxidermy : fashioning corpses / Subarna Mondal.
| Author/creator | Mondal, Subarna author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | 1 online resource (x, 158 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Supplemental Content | Click here to view book |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Speciesism and sexism: Norman Bates and her Victorian predecessors -- Norma's home and Norman's diorama: taxidermy, longing and nostalgia -- Illusory souvenirs: memory, beauty, and Hitchcock's women in Psycho, Vertigo, The birds and Marnie -- Hitchcock's installation: Psycho's shower stabbing, Frenzy's serial strangling and the beginning of slashers -- Fellow-stuffers: post-Psycho body horrors. |
| Abstract | "An investigation into how Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) significantly contributes to the Body Horrors of mainstream narrative cinema through the literal and metaphoric use of the cultural practice of Victorian and modern taxidermy"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 07, 2024). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Mondal, Subarna. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and taxidermy New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 9798765101186 |
| LCCN | 2023032740 |
| ISBN | 9798765101216 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9798765101193 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9798765101209 electronic book |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | paperback |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |