Psycho (1960)
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.
Film programs
Books on Psycho
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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 |
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| David Thomson The moment of Psycho, How Alfred Hitchcock taught America to love murder New York, 2009 |
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| Philip J. Skerry The shower scene in Hitchcock's "Psycho", Creating cinematic suspense and terror Lewiston, 2005 |
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Raymond Durgnat A Long Hard Look at Psycho 2002 |
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Stephen Rebello Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho 1998 |
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Janet Leigh, Christopher Nickens Psycho, Hinter den Kulissen von Hitchcocks Kultthriller München, 1996 |
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Janet Leigh with Christopher Nickens Psycho, Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller 1995 |
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| Frank Schnelle (ed.) Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Stuttgart, 1993 |
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Richard J. Anobile (ed.) Psycho London, 1974 |
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| James Naremore Filmguide to Psycho Bloomington, 1973 |
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Books with substantial mentioning of Psycho
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David Greven Intimate violence, Hitchcock, sex, and queer theory Oxford, 2017 |
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David Humbert Violence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, A study in mimesis East Lansing, 2017 |
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David Thomson Moments that made the movies London, 2014 |
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Paul Verhoeven, Rob van Scheers Meer Verhoeven, Op stap door de filmgeschiedenis met Paul Verhoeven Amsterdam, 2014 |
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John White and Sabine Haenni (eds.) Fifty Key American Films London and New York, 2009 |
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David Thomson Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films New York, 2008 |
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Anat Zanger Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise, From Carmen to Ripley Amsterdam, 2006 |
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Ronald Schwartz Neo-Noir, The New Film Noir Style from Psycho to Collateral Lanham, Maryland - Toronto - Oxford, 2005 |
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Jürgen Müller (ed.) Movies of the 50s Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005 |
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| Robert J. Yanal Hitchcock as philosopher Jefferson, N.C., 2005 |
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Roger Ebert The Great Movies 2003 |
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Christopher D. Morris The Hanging Figure, On Suspence and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock Westport, Connecticut - London, 2002 |
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| Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.) International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000 |
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Peter W. Engelmeier (ed.) Icons of film, The 20th century Munich; New York, 2000 |
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Danny Peary Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present New York, 1993 |
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Neil Sinyard Classic Movies London, 1993 |
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David Sterritt The films of Alfred Hitchcock Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA, 1993 |
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Peter van Gelder Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films London, 1990 |
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Joel Finler All-Time Box-Office Hits New York City, 1985 |
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Ann Lloyd (ed.) Movies of the Sixties London, 1983 |
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Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky The Films of Alfred Hitchcock Secaucus, NJ, 1979 |
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Donald Spoto The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures New York, 1976 |
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Albert J. LaValley (editor) Focus on Hitchcock Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1972 |
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Robin Wood Hitchcock's Films New York, 1969 |
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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 |
