Janet Leigh

Alfred Hitchcock 's Psycho (staring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins) is one of the most influential films in motion picture history. Hitchcock uses cinematography, dialogue, costumes and lighting, as well as many other film techniques to thrill the audience and keep them on the edge of their seats from the beginning of the film to the very end. The scenes we have just viewed are a typical example of Hitchcock 's great ability to tell a story in a horrific way and haunt the viewers for a long time

audience (Kapsis 13). It was advertised as: "Alfred Hitchcock's greatest, most shocking mystery with a galaxy of stars" (Greene 1). The stars themselves (Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, and Anthony Perkins) were of a younger generation than the top stars Hitchcock had previously employed for his films (Finler 131). Posters for Psycho featured a scantily clad Leigh wearing

Psycho is a classic horror/thriller directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock made in 1960. It followed Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), who stole $40,000 in order to be with her lover, and stopped at the Bates Motel, owned by the psychotic split-personality Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), along the way, and is murdered by Bates, which catalyses an investigation into Norman and his mysterious mother. Psycho explored in-depth the psychosis of its characters and how it connected to Kübler-Ross model of

skyline to the window then a low shot of the bed where Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and her lover Sam Loomis (John Gavin) are having an affair just like a bird. When Marion returns home from her job. The camera takes on human qualities as it roams around the room looking questionably at the money envelope. Hitchcock uses a close up shot of the money along with suspenseful music to show the audience that Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is going to steal the money. Psycho has goes back to the characteristics

lunchtime affair relationship in her attractive white underpants in the first scene which shows the loss of innocence; likewise by capturing a toilet bowl and flush in a restroom (a first in an American film), and killing off its significant "star" Janet Leigh 33% of the path into the film (in a stunning, splendidly altered shower murder scene joined by

Universal Studios presents the 1960 film “Psycho” by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from the Robert Bloch novel by Joseph Stephano, and scored by Bernard Hermann. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, and a very creepy house. This film falling under the horror genre was based loosely on the novel of the same name which drew inspiration from real life serial killer Ed Gein, who has been the motivation for two other popular movies, “The Silence of the Lambs” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”

When looking at the first film chosen Psycho (1960) Hitchcock used detailed visual and aural compositions to express his characters feelings of paranoia and claustrophobia, along with his experienced editing skills to create suspense. With a fine-tuned sense of irony, Hitchcock examined the abnormal perversions and obsessive desires lurking beneath the surface of ordinary lives and societies, enabling him to become a smart observer of America in the 1950s, the decade during which he directed his

The film “Psycho” directed by Alfred Hitchcock is an excellent example that exploits many film techniques, to create different effects in the opening sequence and further on in the film. Many of these film techniques can be seen in the opening scene where Marion Crane meets her lover (Sam) who she is having an affair with. The two characters can be seen meeting at a cheap hotel during Marion’s extended lunch break, they discuss the progression of their relationship and how they cannot afford to get

had to make Psycho in a time of very strict censorship in the USA. To get the film to the maximum audiences without having to change his ideas he showed in the film, Hitchcock used devious techniques to get past the strict censors. Janet Leigh (the actress playing Marion) said in an interview that she thought the strict censorship rules made Hitchcock a better filmmaker, as he had to be more creative. This is a good point as if you have a film were there is a killer running

Clearly heavily influenced by Douglas Gordon’s 24-Hour Psycho, Don DeLillo decidedly creates a somewhat parallel universe in which Jim Finley, the protagonist of Point Omega partakes in voyeuristic acts and shares many odd similarities with 24-Hour Psycho’s Norman Bates that illustrate Finley as a clone of Bates, allowing the reader (and watcher) to understand both personas from a more understanding perspective. The novella Point Omega immediately alludes to 24-Hour Psycho as the epilogue presents