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Examples Of Voyeurism In Vertigo Hithcock

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In Psycho (1960) Hithcock’s catholic vision appears in the form of a biblical picture. As voyeurs viewers see Marion undress for her shower along with Bates through peephole. For this he removes from the wall a replica of “Susanna and the Elders,” the biblical story of three old men who spied on a righteous woman as she prepared for bath. When passions aflame and they leaped out with threats and sexual blackmail. In Spoto’s words Norman “removes the artifact of deadly voyeurism and replaces it with the act itself. So much for “mere” spying” (322). In Vertigo Hithcock shows a catholic church with tower in California, the only available church Gender and Sexuality It is a common notion that one’s sex is determined by anatomy, but

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