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Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO and ‘The Art of Pure Cinema’
by Peter Wilshire, Australian Screen Education, 14431629, Winter 2009, Vol. 54 Hitchcock regarded psycho as his most powerful demonstration of what he referred to as ‘the art of pure cinema’. 1. The director described this as the assembly of pieces of film to create fright. 2. The essence of Psycho is the way in which Hitchcock brilliantly uses filmic technique to manipulate the viewer’s emotions and expectations.
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