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028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No.- 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c: 121071 _d: 17/12/2024
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100			_aMondal, Subarna.
245			_aAlfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Taxidermy _b: Fashioning Corpses. _c/Subarna Mondal.
260			_a, New York _b: Bloomsbury _c,2024.
300			_aix, 154p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aThere 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.
650			_aGothic potentials
650			_aPsycho
650			_aCultural practice
700			_aSubarna Mondal
942			_cBOOK
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