‘Psycho’ is a 1960 Slasher-Horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, ‘The Master of Suspense’. The film focuses on Marion Crane, a young secretary who, after stealing $40,000 from her employer, comes across a secluded motel and its disturbed owner, Norman Bates. Midway through the film, Marion is murdered by Bates, leaving her boyfriend and sister to solve the riddle that is Norman Bates. Hitchcock uses several techniques to create a tense atmosphere full of suspense for the audience such as lighting
The 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller, Psycho and the psychological thriller novel, The Talented Mr.Ripley by Patricia Highsmith both challenge the audience’s perception of the noir protagonist in explorating controversial themes via the protagonist. Through the use of a range of stylistic features, the authors aim to blur the line between innocence and guilt by subverting commonly held stereotypes of normality in the protagonists to explore evil. Characterisation of both of these protagonists
Roy Porter’s Bodies Politic is a well-documented study, rich in illustrations of visual and literary representations, of the social and cultural attitudes towards health, disease, mortality and doctors in Britain from the seventeenth century to the end of the Victorian age. Though the time- frame is clearly stated in the title, Porter has briefly but sincerely traced the cultural history of healing and doctoring in Europe since the Classical times, both in spiritual and pathological senses, and