Book: Understanding contemporary art

Only the first twenty-six minutes: Hitchcock’s Psycho [1960]

Marion Crane and her madness

Advertising poster from the time (1960). (Wikipedia) Even here Marion rightly gets star billing.

I came to Psycho very late in the day. It had been around for decades, and all my arty friends had seen it as teenagers. It was one of those you ‘have-to-have-seen’ cultural events that gave me the vague feeling other people…