01600nam a22002297a 4500 20241227160736.0 241227b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9798765101186 : International Book Distributors : Flat No.- 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi : 121071 : 17/12/2024 791.43 MON Mondal, Subarna. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Taxidermy : Fashioning Corpses. /Subarna Mondal. , New York : Bloomsbury ,2024. ix, 154p. : 24cm. 5948 There are numerous scholarly works on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Some of these works have explored its Gothic potentials. However, no detailed effort has yet been made to explore one of its major motifs - taxidermy. Taxidermy as an art of corporeal preservation has effectively been used in mainstream body horror films years after Psycho was released. Yet Psycho was one of the first films to explore its potentials in the Gothic genre at a time when it was relegated to a low form of art. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Taxidermy focuses on taxidermy as a cultural practice in both Victorian and modern times and how it has been employed both metaphorically and literally in Hitchcock's films, especially Psycho. It also situates Psycho as a crucial film in the filmic continuum of body horrors where death and docility share a troubled relationship. Gothic potentials Psycho Cultural practice Subarna Mondal BOOK 62639 62639 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2024-12-27 International Book Distributors 5948.00 0 791.43 MON 30540 2025-02-05 00:00:00 2024-12-27 BOOK