A Long Hard Look at Psycho (BFI Film Classics)
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 0851709206
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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supporter was Lew Wassermann. head of MCA. the powerful talent agency. lt was he who rst proposed the Hitchcock TV series. /ll/hwl Hitchcock Prexenlr (later. T/it: /ll/red Hit:/icock Hour). Perkins. Leigh. Gavin and Stefano were all clients of MCA. (Miles was contracted to Hitchcock himself, though relations had turned quite sour. between two strong-minded people.) Paramount studio space being. apparently. shot at Universal. then at a fully occupied. P.\;vt-/in was low ebb. MCA had just
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Marion's mostly lateral movements. Hcr face threshes from side to side; her long left arm stretches nut to grip her assailant 's wrist. Her other arm is defensive across her breast. Asher defence fails she turns to llee. but is trapped against the wall. leaving her back defenceless (the turnaround motif?) Conspicuous close-up details include shots of her abdomen and side. so close that they're a bit featureless. like slabs of meat and (an early switch to vertical) her feet trampling in panic. as
original sense. for him. was the music-hall ‘attraction‘ or ‘turn' ~ the act which commands one 's attention before the next. distinctively dillierent. one. Z. At rst. the equivalent. in lilm. of the ‘tttrn' seemed to be the shot. \l.tt\4; tl\Rl!1.u
