Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few films have carved as deep and lasting a wound into the fabric of cinema as Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece Psycho, and Richard J. Anobile's frame-by-frame reconstruction of the film brings that razor-sharp terror vividly back to life. This unique volume presents the complete film in thousands of sequential still photographs drawn directly from the original footage, accompanied by the full dialogue, allowing readers to experience the psychological dread of Marion Crane's fateful detour to the Bates Motel with unprecedented intimacy. Every iconic image — the shower, the shadowy silhouette, the parlour of taxidermied birds — is rendered in striking black and white, giving the work the weight of a cinematic scripture. Anobile's meticulous frame-by-frame format, pioneered across his celebrated Film Classics Library series, transforms the act of reading into an act of viewing, arguing implicitly that Hitchcock's visual grammar is so precise it demands study at the level of individual frames. The result is both a love letter to one of Hollywood's greatest auteurs and an invaluable document for students of film history, capturing the cold geometry of suspense that made Psycho a watershed moment in the horror genre. Whether one comes to it as a scholar or a devoted cinephile, this volume leaves the unsettling question hanging in the air: how well do we ever truly know the person standing just on the other side of the door?
Author: Richard J. Anobile
Format: Paperback
Genre: Movies & entertainment
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few films have carved as deep and lasting a wound into the fabric of cinema as Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece Psycho, and Richard J. Anobile's frame-by-frame reconstruction of the film brings that razor-sharp terror vividly back to life. This unique volume presents the complete film in thousands of sequential still photographs drawn directly from the original footage, accompanied by the full dialogue, allowing readers to experience the psychological dread of Marion Crane's fateful detour to the Bates Motel with unprecedented intimacy. Every iconic image — the shower, the shadowy silhouette, the parlour of taxidermied birds — is rendered in striking black and white, giving the work the weight of a cinematic scripture. Anobile's meticulous frame-by-frame format, pioneered across his celebrated Film Classics Library series, transforms the act of reading into an act of viewing, arguing implicitly that Hitchcock's visual grammar is so precise it demands study at the level of individual frames. The result is both a love letter to one of Hollywood's greatest auteurs and an invaluable document for students of film history, capturing the cold geometry of suspense that made Psycho a watershed moment in the horror genre. Whether one comes to it as a scholar or a devoted cinephile, this volume leaves the unsettling question hanging in the air: how well do we ever truly know the person standing just on the other side of the door?