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]