A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.


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Books on Psycho

Robert Graysmith
The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower, A murder that became a real-life mystery, a mystery that became an obsession
New York, 2010

David Thomson
The moment of Psycho, How Alfred Hitchcock taught America to love murder
New York, 2009

Philip J. Skerry
The shower scene in Hitchcock's "Psycho", Creating cinematic suspense and terror
Lewiston, 2005

Raymond Durgnat
A Long Hard Look at Psycho
2002

Stephen Rebello
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
1998

Janet Leigh, Christopher Nickens
Psycho, Hinter den Kulissen von Hitchcocks Kultthriller
München, 1996

Janet Leigh with Christopher Nickens
Psycho, Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller
1995

Frank Schnelle (ed.)
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Stuttgart, 1993

Richard J. Anobile (ed.)
Psycho
London, 1974

James Naremore
Filmguide to Psycho
Bloomington, 1973

Books with substantial mentioning of Psycho

David Greven
Intimate violence, Hitchcock, sex, and queer theory
Oxford, 2017

David Humbert
Violence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, A study in mimesis
East Lansing, 2017

David Thomson
Moments that made the movies
London, 2014

Paul Verhoeven, Rob van Scheers
Meer Verhoeven, Op stap door de filmgeschiedenis met Paul Verhoeven
Amsterdam, 2014

John White and Sabine Haenni (eds.)
Fifty Key American Films
London and New York, 2009

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Anat Zanger
Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise, From Carmen to Ripley
Amsterdam, 2006

Ronald Schwartz
Neo-Noir, The New Film Noir Style from Psycho to Collateral
Lanham, Maryland - Toronto - Oxford, 2005

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 50s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Robert J. Yanal
Hitchcock as philosopher
Jefferson, N.C., 2005

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Christopher D. Morris
The Hanging Figure, On Suspence and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Peter W. Engelmeier (ed.)
Icons of film, The 20th century
Munich; New York, 2000

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

David Sterritt
The films of Alfred Hitchcock
Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA, 1993

Peter van Gelder
Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films
London, 1990

Joel Finler
All-Time Box-Office Hits
New York City, 1985

Ann Lloyd (ed.)
Movies of the Sixties
London, 1983

Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Donald Spoto
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
New York, 1976

Albert J. LaValley (editor)
Focus on Hitchcock
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1972

Robin Wood
Hitchcock's Films
New York, 1969

Articles on Psycho

Pasquale Iannone, On the road with Hitchcock and Herrmann: sound, music and the car journey in Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960), in: Steven Rawle and K.J. Donnelly (eds.), Partners in suspense, Manchester, 2017

Steven Rawle, How could you possibly be a Hitchcocko-Herrmannian?: Digitally re-narrativising collaborative authorship, in: Steven Rawle and K.J. Donnelly (eds.), Partners in suspense, Manchester, 2017

Kim Newman, Still Psycho after All These Years, in: Premiere (UK), nr. 34 (November), 1995 pp. 104-111

Ian Nathan, Psycho, in: Empire, nr. 253 (July), 2010 pp. 144-146

María del Carmen Garrido Hornos, Hitchcock and the Hollywood Production Code: Censorship and Critical Acceptance in the 1960s, in: Eugenio M. Olivares Merino and Julio A. Olivares Merino, Peeping Through th Holes: Twenty-First Century Essays on Psycho, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013

José María Mesa Villar, "I Don't Hate Her. I Hate What She's Become:" Possession, Transgression and Self-Reconstruction in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, in: Eugenio M. Olivares Merino and Julio A. Olivares Merino, Peeping Through th Holes: Twenty-First Century Essays on Psycho, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013

Jesús M. Nieto García, Robert Bloch through the Looking Glass: Psycho, Doubles and Narrative Technique, in: Eugenio M. Olivares Merino and Julio A. Olivares Merino, Peeping Through th Holes: Twenty-First Century Essays on Psycho, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013

Eugenio M. Olivares Merino, "There Was the Ghost of Hamlet's Father:" The Shakespearean Subtext of Robert Bloch's Psycho (I), in: Eugenio M. Olivares Merino and Julio A. Olivares Merino, Peeping Through th Holes: Twenty-First Century Essays on Psycho, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013

Eugenio M. Olivares Merino, "There Was the Ghost of Hamlet's Father:" The Shakespearean Subtext of Robert Bloch's Psycho (II), in: Eugenio M. Olivares Merino and Julio A. Olivares Merino, Peeping Through th Holes: Twenty-First Century Essays on Psycho, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013

Julio Ángel Olivares Merino, Within the Cellars of the Mind: Blinking, Scopophilia and Other Camera Perversions in Psycho (1960), in: Eugenio M. Olivares Merino and Julio A. Olivares Merino, Peeping Through th Holes: Twenty-First Century Essays on Psycho, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013

María Elena Rodríguez-Martín, Psycho (1960) Revisited: Intertextuality and Refraction, in: Eugenio M. Olivares Merino and Julio A. Olivares Merino, Peeping Through th Holes: Twenty-First Century Essays on Psycho, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013

Laura Mulvey, Death Drives, Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho und Freuds Konzepte des "Todestriebes" und des "Unheimlichen", in: Thomas Ballhausen/Günter Krenn/Lydia Marinelli (Hg.), Psyche im Kino, Wien, 2006

Articles with substantial mentioning of Psycho

Kim Newman, The 10 Scariest Movie Jumps, in: Empire, nr. 162, 2002 pp. 12-13

Rob Fraser, Your 10 Best '60s Movies, in: Empire, nr. 199 (January), 2006 pp. 150-151

Simon Crook, The top 10 Bathroom Scenes, in: Empire, nr. 246 (December), 2009 pp. 192-193

Aviva Briefel, Specters of Respectability, Victorian Horrors in The Turn of the Screw and Psycho, in: Susan M. Griffin and Alan Nadel (eds.), The Men Who Knew Too Much, New York, 2012

Articles with an entry on Psycho

John Caps, Soundtracks 101, Essential movie music: a listener's guide, in: Filmcomment, nr. 6 (Nov/Dec), 2003 pp. 31-49