Philip J Skerry: 2 books
Psycho in the Shower
The History of Cinema's Most Famous Scene
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
"With this book, Philip Skerry makes an ambitious and largely successful effort to restore perspective to the debate that has swirled around Psycho since Hitchcock first ripped back the shower curtain of our expectations in 1960 and plunged his knife into the collective cinematic consciousness."...
Dark Energy
Hitchcock's Absolute Camera and the Physics of Cinematic Spacetime
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Alfred Hitchcock and the cinema grew up together. Born in 1899, four years after the first 'official' film showing in Paris, Hitchcock demonstrated an early fascination with the new art of the cinema. He entered the film industry in 1920, and by 1925, he had directed his first feature-length film,...