Literature Film Quarterly (2015) - Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and the Cinematic Novels of Don DeLillo and Manuel Muñoz
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- journal article: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and the Cinematic Novels of Don DeLillo and Manuel Muñoz
- author(s): David Banash
- journal: Literature Film Quarterly (01/Jan/2015)
- issue: volume 43, issue 1, page 4
- journal ISSN: 0090-4260
- publisher: Salisbury State University
- keywords: Analysis, Books, Criticism and interpretation, Filmmakers, Literary techniques, Motion pictures, Novelists, Novels, Power, Style, Literary, Theaters & cinemas
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Abstract
[...]of its release, many critics decried its sheer sensationalism, but sensation was the point of Psycho, a masterpiece of affective manipulation that had audiences screaming, diving under their seats, and running in the aisles. [...]Gabriele Pedullà's recent book, In Broad Daylight: Movies and Spectators After the Cinema, argues that what distinguished a properly classical cinema was exactly the kind of attention given by a disciplined audience seated in the "dark cube" of an auditorium that produced "a rigorous disciplining of viewing practices through architecture and a precise behavioral code.
