Peeping Through the Holes

Twenty-First Century Essays on Psycho
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-4475-8
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 205 Seiten

The essays presented in this book focus on Psycho, both the novel by Robert Bloch (1950) and the film by Alfred Hitchcock (1960). Therefore, the different approaches range from film studies to literary criticism. Norman Bates has become an icon of the late twentieth century horror genre, and the movie set the basis for later cinematic developments. Over 50 years after the release of the book and the movie it inspired, new readings, revisions and adaptations of the domestic tragedy of Norman Bates and his mother are still being produced, as recently as Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchock in 2012.

Now the curtains (either on the stage or in the bathroom) are about to open and a most peculiar house – with its silhouette and endorsement of doom – is waiting up on the hill. No cameras or pencils are allowed; you’re invited to a ritual that only your eyes will view and your imagination will embody. Leave all hope behind and enter at your own risk. The Bates’ terrifying rollercoaster welcomes you. Nothing is over here … at least not until it overcomes you.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olivares Merino, Eugenio M.

Olivares Merino, Julio A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Über Autor(innen)

Eugenio M. Olivares Merino (BA, Granada 1990; PhD, Granada 1994) teaches Medieval and Early Modern English Literature at the University of Jaén, Spain. He has published books on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Beowulf and Margaret More Roper. He is also the author of several articles, both in Spanish and international journals, on Thomas More, Chaucer, Juan L. Vives, Margaret More, Beowulf and twelfth century revenants. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Urbana-Champaign (1992) and Yale (2003). He is a member of the editorial board of several Spanish journals and of the administration board of Moreana, the journal of the International Association of the Amici Thomae Mori.

Julio Ángel Olivares Merino (BA, Granada 1992; PhD, Jaén 1999) teaches English Literature at the University of Jaén, Spain. His research revolves around Gothic fiction and film, semiotics, and narratology relating to music, film, literature and popular culture. His studies also focus on creativity in the classroom, mainly dealing with the use of radio, its registers or didactic resources, in teaching. His books include The Ring: una mirada al abismo (2005), an approach to Nakata’s masterpiece, and a study of Spanish director Jaume Balagueró (En nombre de la oscuridad, 2011).