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Narrative Parameters in 'Psycho' (Paperback)
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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language
and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of
Trier, course: The American Films of Alfred Hitchcock, language:
English, abstract: 1. Introduction It was probably Psychos
expressionistic interplay between music, mise en scene and story
telling which remotely reminded me of Martin Scorseses Taxi Driver,
a film I had written about before, that fostered my decision to
write about the film that is by many considered to be Alfred
Hitchcocks masterpiece. As a student of English literature I became
quickly interested in the literary model of Psycho by Robert Bloch.
It soon dawned on me that since the book is basically a piece of
pulp fiction with considerably low literary value I would not be
able to draw very profound interpretations out of it. Hitchcock
however had not adapted the book for its substance but for its
structure which he had incorporated with some minor alterations
almost identically into the film. On my search for the structure of
my paper a book by Vibeke Reuter called Alfred Hitchcocks
Handschrift rose my attention. Her starting point basically is the
question what constituted Hitchcocks originality and in how far his
filmic material differs from its literary models. With occasional
references to the books she analyzes Hitchcocks films according to
ten different narrative parameters. These parameters cover a broad
range of aspects and in terms of narration display a rather
integral picture. I adopted her structure but omitted the parameter
of the "structure of time" since Hitchcock pretty much conformed
with the novels chronology and the fact that some characters are in
a way imprisoned by their past did not prove to be enough to form a
whole subsection. As far as she referred to Psycho in her book I
have integrated her arguments into my own argumentation. Like her I
have primarily concentrated on the 1960 film and only referred to
the novel in order to elaborate on
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