Screen Education (2014) - Through the Peephole: Alfred Hitchcock and the Enduring Legacy of Psycho

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• magazine article: Through the Peephole: Alfred Hitchcock and the Enduring Legacy of Psycho
• author(s): Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• journal: Screen Education (01/Sep/2014)
• issue: issue 75, pages 96-101
• journal ISSN: 1449-857X
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Motion pictures, Production and direction, Psycho (1960), Psychological aspects

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Abstract

Often, 1960 is cited as the year the modern horror film was born, seeing the release of Georges Franju's Les yeux sans visage, Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. It is the last of these that has carved a privileged place not just in the annals of horror history itself but also in the broader pop-cultural imagination. Evidence of its recent legacy exists in the current popular US television series Bates Motel and Sacha Gervasi's 2012 biopic, Hitchcock, which focuses explicitly on the making of Psycho. Despite being one of Hitchcock's most controversial movies, and one that was marked by a swathe of difficulties during its production, it garnered four Oscar nominations for the director and continues to frequently rank highly in lists of the greatest and most important movies ever made.