A long hard look at 'Psycho' / Raymond Durgnat ; with a foreword by Henry K. Miller Author: Durgnat, Raymond Format: Book Language: English Imprint: London: BFI: Palgrave Macmillan, Subjects: Psycho (Motion picture: ). · The dossier of tributes to Raymond Durgnat in Issue 20 of Senses of Cinema looked ahead to the posthumous publication of A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’, and whetted the appetite by printing the opening section of close analysis. The book itself is a pleasure to handle and to read. Rob White of BFI Publishing deserves our gratitude for persuading Durgnat back into writing books after a . A Long Hard Look at Psycho is a detailed examinatiion of a Hitchcock classic. Reviewed in the United States on January 5, Verified Purchase. British film scholar Raymond Durgnat has written a Cited by:
Durgnat never lost the power to surprise. In , the year of his death, his masterpiece was published; A Long Hard Look at Psycho, which breaks down every single shot of the film, using his. The author of one of the seminal works of Hitchcock criticism, The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock (), Raymond Durgnat () was one of Britain's pre-eminent writers on cinema. Among his writings are books on Buñuel, Franju, Renoir, sexual alienation in the cinema, and a study of WR - Mysteries of the Organism for the BFI Modern Classics series (). In his introduction to the new edition, Henry K. Miller presents A Long Hard Look at Psycho as the culmination of Durgnat's decades-long campaign to correct what he called film studies' 'Grand Error', tracing the path of a project that began at the time of the film's release, and which.
In his introduction to the new edition, Henry K. Miller presents A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' as the culmination of Durgnat's decades-long campaign to correct what he called film studies' 'Grand Error'. In the course of expounding Durgnat's root-and-branch challenge to our inherited shibboleths about Hollywood cinema in general and Hitchcock in particular, Miller also describes the eclectic intellectual tradition to which Durgnat claimed allegiance. A Long Hard Look at Psycho. by. Raymond Durgnat. · Rating details · 58 ratings · 11 reviews. In an American Film Institute poll in , Psycho was voted the greatest thriller of all time. It has scenes and characters that are among the most iconic in all cinema. The dossier of tributes to Raymond Durgnat in Issue 20 of Senses of Cinema looked ahead to the posthumous publication of A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’, and whetted the appetite by printing the opening section of close analysis. The book itself is a pleasure to handle and to read. Rob White of BFI Publishing deserves our gratitude for persuading Durgnat back into writing books after a long gap, first with the study of WR: Mysteries of the Organism (BFI, ) in the Modern Classics series.
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