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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. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Taxidermy focuses on taxidermy as a cultural practice in both Victorian and modern times and how it has been employed both metaphorically and literally in Hitchcock's films, especially Psycho. It also situates Psycho as a crucial film in the filmic continuum of body horrors where death and docility share a troubled relationship.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Live forever by dying today": Taxidermy, Corporeal Gothic, and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Chapter 1: Speciesism and Sexism: Norma Bates and Her Victorian Predecessors
Chapter 2: Norma's Home and Norman's Diorama: Taxidermy, Longing, and Nostalgia
Chapter 3: Illusory Souvenirs: Memory, Beauty, and Hitchcock's Women in Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, and Marnie
Chapter 4: Hitchcock's Installation: Psycho's Shower Stabbing, Frenzy's Serial Strangling, and the Beginning of Slashers
Chapter 5: Fellow-stuffers: Post-Psycho Body Horrors
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