Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and taxidermy : fashioning corpses / Subarna Mondal.

Author/creator Mondal, Subarna author.
Format Electronic
PublicationNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Copyright Date©2024
Description1 online resource (x, 158 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 07, 2024).
Issued in other formPrint version: Mondal, Subarna. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and taxidermy New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 9798765101186
LCCN 2023032740
ISBN9798765101216 electronic book
ISBN9798765101193 electronic book
ISBN9798765101209 electronic book
ISBNhardcover
ISBNpaperback

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