Framework (1980) - Hybrid plots in "Psycho"
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- article: Hybrid plots in "Psycho"
- author(s): Peter Wollen
- journal: Framework (1980)
- issue: issue 13, page 14
- journal ISSN: 0306-7661
- Sloan's Alfred Hitchcock: A Filmography and Bibliography (1995) — page 446, #598
- keywords: North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), Marnie (1964)
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Abstract
- "After the ideas of Vladimir Propp, analysis of the similar fairy tale structures of North by Northwest, Psycho and Marnie that finds 'a series of transformations and redistributions of roles reminiscent of those described in an essay by Freud titled A Child is Being Beaten.'" — Sloan, page 446