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Clues (2013) - Extraordinary Renditions: DeLillo's Point Omega and Hitchcock's Psycho

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  • article: Extraordinary Renditions: DeLillo's Point Omega and Hitchcock's Psycho
  • author(s): Mark Osteen
  • journal: Clues (01/Apr/2013)
  • issue: volume 31, issue 1, page 103
  • journal ISSN: 0742-4248
  • publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc
  • keywords: Literary criticism, Motion picture criticism, Motion pictures, Novels

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Abstract

Tracing how Don DeLillo's novella rings changes on the word rendition, the author unravels a skein of intertextual and metacinematic relations that stretches from Psycho to Douglas Gordon's 24 Hour Psycho video installation, Robert Bloch's original novel, and the many Psycho remakes; it even includes a film, made by DeLillo's protagonist, about comedian Jerry Lewis. The author argues that both novel and film force viewers to confront their own complicity with terror and torture. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]