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THANKS TO RED DEMBNER and Frances Jalet for their enthusiasm and persistence of vision. I thank Julian Bach and Ann Rittenberg for their suggestions, their decency, and their old-world agentry. For assistance in tracking down photographs and reference material, I am indebted to Miou-Miou and Jasmine Allpoints, Lou D’Elia, Mrs. Joseph Hurley, Frederick S. Clarke, Paul Farrar, Marshall Schlom, Gary A. Smith, and Ron Harvey.
Index
A | B | C | D | E
F | G | H | I | J
K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T
U | V | W | Y | Z
Academy Awards, 177-79
Actors, 58-59
Addams, Charles, 68
Adler, Harold, 133, 140-41, 142, 152
Advertising, 149, 150, 151-52
Advertising trailer, 128, 152-56
Albee, Edward, 191
Albertson, Frank, 67, 196
Aldrich, Robert, 191
“Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (TV series), 16, 26, 32, 63, 153
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, 26-27
Allardice, James, 27, 153, 155, 172, 196
Allen, Jay Presson, 185, 186
Allied Artists, 22
Altshuler, Harry, 10, 13
Ambler, Eric, 27
American Film Institute, 187
American-International, 22, 40
Anatomy of a Murder (film), 140
Anderson, Michael, 170
Andrews, Julie, 186
Angry Silence, The (film), 177
Anobile, Richard, 112
Antonioni, Michelangelo, 169
Arbogast character, 119-25
Arbogast murder scene, 101, 120-25, 130
Audience identification, 114, 116, 130
Audience phenomenon
Psycho as, 161-62
Audiences, 86, 90, 119, 126, 134, 148, 160, 161, 174, 189, 191
admission policy, 149-50, 153
Hitchcock on, 56, 173
as voyeur, 48
reaction to Psycho, 162-64
Auteur theory, 168-69
Backstory (McGilligan), 43
Baker, Carroll, 28
Balaban, Barney, 23, 149
Balsam, Martin, 66, 119-25, 128, 130, 143, 166, 167, 196
Barker, Clive, 12
Barnes, George, 114
Barrie, James, 183, 186
Barron, Jack, 54, 65, 82, 90-91, 111, 112, 113, 114
makeup for Psycho, 74-76
postproduction, 135
and shooting Psycho, 84-85, 103
Bass, Saul, 48, 126, 143, 145, 152, 196-97
and Arbogast murder scene, 122-23, 124
and postproduction, 130-31, 139-42
and shower scene, 100-18
title sequences, 57-58
Ben-Hur (film), 16, 164, 178
Bennett, Charles, 39, 43, 48
Bergman, Ingmar, 169
Bergman, Ingrid, 59, 64, 114
“Birds, The” (Du Maurier), 183
Birds, The (film), 36, 45, 54, 65, 80, 133, 183-85
score, 136
Black, Noel, 191
Black Cat, The (film), 52
Blackmail (film), 16
Bloch, Robert, 23, 32, 44, 51, 95, 111
on The Birds, 185
and critical reception of Psycho, 170
Deadbeat, The, 12
“Lilies,” 7
Mystery Writers of America award, 188
and proposed successor to Psycho, 188
Psycho (novel), 7-14, 38, 40, 53, 61, 156
Psycho II, 189
sale of rights, 148
Scarf, The, 7-8, 12
at screening, 142, 143—44
works by, 197
Bogdanovich, Peter, 160, 169, 189
Boileau, Pierre, 20-21
Bone, Robert, 118
Boucher, Anthony, 10n, 11, 19, 176
Quality of Murder, The (ed.), 12n
Boulting, Roy, 191
Boyle, Robert, 28, 67, 93, 182
Brandt, Jim, 127
Breathless (film), 169
Breen, Joseph I., 76
Bride of Frankenstein, The (film), 52
Brooks, Mel, 189
Brown, Kay, 38
Brown, Ned, 13, 20, 37-38
Buckley, Paul F, 165
Budget (Psycho), 53, 54, 69, 156
Bumstead, Henry, 28, 67, 182
Burks, Robert, 28, 182
Busch, Henry Adolph, 173
But Not for Me (film), 28
Cahiers de Cinema, 167, 168-69, 175
Cain, James M.
Double Indemnity, 12
Mildred Pierce, 12
Postman Always Rings Twice, The, 12
Camera expertise (Hitchcock), 61-62, 82-83
Camera work (Psycho), 36, 48, 54-55, 56, 80, 126, 127
shower scene, 102-3, 105, 106, 114-16
Cameron, Ian, 111, 121
Canby, Vincent, 169, 175
Cardiff, Jack, 178
Carpenter, John, 192
Carrie (film), 189, 192
Carroll, Madeleine, 64
Casting (Psycho), 58-67
Castle, William, 18, 165-6
6, 188, 191
Cavanagh, James P., 32-10, 46, 197
“Care and Handling of Psycho, The” (manual), 150
Cecil, Henry, 18
Celle Qui N’Etait Plus (The Woman Who Was) (Boileau and Narcejac), 20-21
Celluloid Muse, The (Higham), 40
Censors, 86, 117, 127, 144, 145-46, 147, 171
British, 166
and preproduction, 76-78
Censorship, 101, 103, 105, 117, 128
Chabrol, Claude, 168, 169
Chandler, Raymond, 12, 17, 48
Chaney, Lon, 52, 70
Characterization (Psycho), 41-42, 44, 46
Charisse, Cyd, 179
Christie, Agatha, 12
Citizen Kane (film), 57, 74, 119, 153
Clark, Bob, 191
Clatworthy, Robert, 67-70, 93, 94, 114, 119, 123, 124-26, 132, 197
Academy Award nomination, 178
and postproduction, 135
and shower scene, 101, 102
Clouzot, Henri-Georges, 17, 18, 20-22, 23, 167, 168, 171
Clouzot, Vera, 21, 152
Code, 76-78
Coleman, Herbert, 23, 29-30, 51, 53, 56, 57-58, 82, 197
Colvig, Helen, 71, 74, 85, 87, 103, 117, 135
Cook, Eugene, 106
Cooper, Gary, 52, 170
Coppola, Francis Ford, 191
Costumes (Psycho), 54
Cowie, Peter, 160
Crawford, Joan, 63, 188
Crescendo (film), 191
Critical reception
Psycho, 160-61, 164-72, 174, 175, 177
Vertigo, 20
Crowther, Bosley, 21, 165, 171
Cukor, George, 18, 59
Curtis, Jamie Lee, 189
Curtis, Tony, 61, 143, 178
Cutting (Psycho), 62, 105, 120
Danse Macabre (King), 12
Dark Victory (Moldea), 29
Dassin, Jules, 178
Davis, Martin, 166
Dawn, Robert, 74, 75-76, 112, 113
Deadbeat, The (Bloch), 12
Decca Records, 52
Dee, Florence, 54
Dee, Vincent, 54, 71
DeMille, Cecil B., 52, 94, 176
D’Entre Les Morts (From Amongst the
Dead) (Boileau and Narcejac), 20
De Palma, Brian, 138, 189, 191, 192
Devil and Daniel Webster, The (film), 57, 144
Diaboliques, Les (film), 17, 18, 20-21, 23, 82, 174, 193
advertising for, 149, 152
Psycho as successor to, 171
Dial M for Murder (film), 16
Die, Die, My Darling (film), 190
Dieterle, William, 144
Dore, Ann, 66
Double Indemnity (Cain), 12
Douglas, Michael, 193
Dracula (film), 52
Du Maurier, Daphne, 38, 183
Durbin, Deanna, 52
Editing (Psycho), 112, 117-18, 124, 133-34, 142, 144-15, 146
Ending (Psycho), 81, 131, 134-35, 149, 161, 168
Engle, Sam, 37
Epper, Margo, 66, 113, 114
Erlich, Max, 170
Eroticism, 86-87
Exorcist, The (film), 192, 193
Eye of the Cat (film), 170
Family Plot (film), 48, 54
Farmer’s Wife, The (film), 175
Fast, Howard, 191
Fatal Attraction (film), 189, 192, 193-94
Fawcett (co.), 12, 156
Fellini, Federico, 169
“Figure in the Carpet, The” (Houston), 173-74
Film technique (Psycho), 86, 93
Flamingo Feather (film), 17-18
Fonda, Henry, 64
Foolish Wives (film), 52
Ford, John, 64, 169, 177
Foreign Correspondent (film), 16, 27, 164
400 Blows, The (film), 169
Fraker, William “Bud,” 94, 106
Francis, Freddie, 178, 179
Frankenstein (film), 52
Franklin, Richard, 189
Freeman, Y. Frank, 148, 149, 185
Frenzy (film), 171, 191
Freudian theory, 9, 12, 13, 47
Friedkin, William, 192, 193
Fuller, Sam, 53
Gable, Clark, 28
Gains, William, 12
Gavin, John, 65, 152, 197
and shooting Psycho, 86-88, 91, 96
Gein, Ed, 1-6, 11, 12-13, 191
novel about murders by, 7-14
Gein, Henry, 2
Geoffrey-Stanley Productions, 186
Germain, Larry, 54
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (film), 57
Gilbert, Justin, 165
Godard, Jean-Luc, 169
Gone With the Wind (film), 53, 153
Gothic (the), 12
Gothic horror film (Psycho), 41
Gould, Charles S., 55, 56
Graham, Winston, 183
Grant, Cary, 16, 18, 22, 25, 27, 59
Green, Hilton A., 28, 83, 97, 100, 110, 116, 120, 198
and postproduction, 135, 143
and preproduction, 55, 56, 57
and shooting Psycho, 106, 123-24, 126, 127
on success of Psycho, 172
Gregg, Virginia, 66, 132-33, 198
Grave robbing, 4, 8
Griffith, D. W., 187
Hailey, Arthur, 62
Hale, Wanda, 165
Halliwell, Leslie, 107
Halliwell’s Film and Video Guide, 107
Halloween (film), 192
Hammer Film Productions, 22, 190-91
Harper & Row, 10
Harrison, Joan, 19, 27, 28, 30, 32, 35
Haunted house genre, 130-31
Hawks, Howard, 22, 169, 175
Hayes, John Michael, 43, 48, 78
Hays, Will H., 76
Hays Office, 76, 77
Head, Edith, 63, 73, 182
Heath, Neville, 191
Hedren, “Tippi,” 184, 185, 186
Hepburn, Audrey, 18
Herrmann, Bernard, 57, 138-39, 142-43, 144, 155, 179, 186, 187-88, 189, 198
Higham, Charles, 40, 170
Hiroshima (film), 169
Hitchcock, Alfred, 14, 15-23
artistry of, 168, 169, 175
attention to detail, 42-43
cameo appearances, 27, 97
crisis of confidence, 186-87
as cult figurehead, 169
as director, 84-85, 86, 87-88, 89-93, 95, 96, 99-100, 108-11, 112, 113-14, 115, 116-17, 118, 119, 120, 124-25, 132, 133, 134-35, 144-45
film adaptations from novels, 17
as filmmaker, 174, 175-76, 190, 192
films of, 16-17, 203-4
financed Psycho, 29, 134
imitators of, 190-91
impact of success of Psycho on, 174-77, 184
personal characteristics, 20, 22, 36-37, 41, 43, 74-75, 90-91, 98-99, 107, 174, 178, 182
post-Psycho projects, 181-94
promotional junkets, 156-57, 163-64, 166
public persona, 168, 184
response to impact of Psycho, 172-75
studies of films of, 169, 187
successors to, 192-94
Hitchcock, Alma, 19, 27, 43, 76, 85, 99, 118, 156-57, 179
Hitchcock, Patricia, 66-67, 70, 72, 97, 99, 198
Hitchcock Production Company, 27
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Truffaut), 169
Hogan, Mary, 4
Homicidal (film), 165-66, 191
Hooper, Tobe, 191
Hopper, Edward, 68, 69
Horror films, 22
Horror literature, 12
House by the Railroad (artwork), 68
Houseman, John, 57
Houston, Penelope, 173-74
Hughes, Howard, 77
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (film), 52
Hunter, Evan, 185
Hurley, Joseph, 67-68, 69, 92, 101, 102, 123, 125, 135, 198
Academy Award nomination, 178
Hurtz, William, 140
Huston, John, 71, 85, 91
Hyer, Martha, 60
Hysteria (film), 190
Incest, 4, 77-78
Inner Sanctum Mystery series, 10
International Studios, 52-53
Invisible Man, The (film), 52
Jamaica Inn (film), 16, 164
Jasmin, Paul, 59, 66, 81, 131-32, 133, 198
Jones, Shirley, 60, 178, 179
Jules and Jim (film), 169
Julian, Rupert, 70
Kastle, Herbert, 191
Katz, Sam, 23
Kazan, Elia, 119
Kearney, Caroline, 62
Kelly, Grace, 18, 63, 64, 73, 183
Kerr, Deborah, 170
Killer Inside Me, The (Thompson), 9
King, Stephen, 12, 192
Danse Macabre, 12
Knight, Ted, 67
Kramer, Stanley, 85
Kubrick, Stanley, 131
Lady Vanishes, The (film), 25
Laemmle, Carl, 52, 125
Landau, Martin, 78
Lang, Fritz, 171
Lange, Hope, 60
Laughton, Charles, 22
Laurie, Piper, 60
Leary, Lew, 117
Le Bret, Robert Favre, 184
Legion of Decency, 77, 78, 160
Lehman, Ernest, 16, 31, 41, 48, 78, 178
Leigh, Janet, 40, 70, 76, 128, 144, 145, 156, 162, 167, 171, 188, 189, 198
Academy Award nomination, 178, 179
cast as Mary Crane, 60-62
critics on, 165, 166
publicity shots, 152
reaction to seeing Psycho, 143
and shooting Psycho, 83, 84-88, 89-90, 91, 94, 102-4, 106, 108-9, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117-18
wardrobe, 72—73
Leigh-Hunt, Barbara, 171
Lejeune, C. A., 167
Leonard, Elmore, 17
Leroy, Mervyn, 22
Levy, Benn, 191
Lewin, Albert, 126
Lifeboat (film), 16, 177, 183
Lighting (Psycho), 82, 114, 126, 130
“Lilies” (Bloch), 7
Locations (Psycho), 55-56, 80, 82, 92-93, 125
Lodger, The (film), 95
Loggia, Robert, 65
Lost Country, The (Salamanca), 37
Lovecraft, H. P., 7
Lovers, The (film), 169
Ludmer, Michael, 17, 20, 36, 182, 190
Luraschi, Luigi, 77-78, 145, 199
Lyne, Adrian, 192, 193-94
M (film), 171
Macbeth (film), 132, 133
MacDonald, Dwight, 165
MacLaine, Shirley, 43
MacPhail, Angus, 18
McGilligan, Pat, 43
McIntire, John, 67, 96, 133
Makeup (Psycho), 54, 74-76
Maltin, Leonard, 190
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (film), 16, 23, 48, 57, 59, 67, 84, 89
Man Who Lost His Head, The (film), 188
Maniac (film), 190
Mann, Anthony, 148
Marnie (film), 185-86
Marnie (Graham), 183
Martin, Tony, 179
Mary Rose (Barrie), 186
Mason, James, 16
Mass murder, 1-6, 8
Masur, Harold Q., 26