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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Taxidermy: Fashioning Corpses

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Taxidermy: Fashioning Corpses

Subarna Mondal, "Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Taxidermy: Fashioning Corpses"
English | ASIN‏ : ‎ B0CCGKWKHQ | 2024 | 168 pages | EPUB | 1438 KB

There are numerous scholarly works on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Some of these works have explored its Gothic potentials. However, no detailed effort has yet been made to explore one of its major motifs – taxidermy. Taxidermy as an art of corporeal preservation has effectively been used in mainstream body horror films years after Psycho was released. Yet Psycho was one of the first films to explore its potentials in the Gothic genre at a time when it was relegated to a low form of art.
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