How Long to Read A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho'

How Long Does it Take to Read A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho'?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' by Raymond Durgnat

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Upon its release in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho divided critical opinion, with several leading film critics condemning Hitchcock's apparent encouragement of the audience's identification with the gruesome murder that lies at the heart of the film. Such antipathy did little to harm Psycho's box-office returns, and it would go on to be acknowledged as one of the greatest film thrillers, with scenes and characters that are among the most iconic in all cinema. In his illuminating study of Psycho, Raymond Durgnat provides a minute analysis of its unfolding narrative, enabling us to consider what happens to the viewer as he or she watches the film, and to think afresh about questions of spectatorship, Hollywood narrative codes, psycho-analysis, editing and shot composition. In his introduction to the new edition, Henry K. Miller presents A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' as the culmination of Durgnat's decades-long campaign to correct what he called film studies' 'Grand Error'. In the course of expounding Durgnat's root-and-branch challenge to our inherited shibboleths about Hollywood cinema in general and Hitchcock in particular, Miller also describes the eclectic intellectual tradition to which Durgnat claimed allegiance. This band of amis inconnus, among them William Empson, Edgar Morin and Manny Farber, had at its head Durgnat's mentor Thorold Dickinson. The book's story begins in the early 1960s, when Dickinson made the long hard look the basis of his pioneering film course at the Slade School of Fine Art, and Psycho became one of its first objects.

How long is A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho'?

A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' by Raymond Durgnat is 264 pages long, and a total of 67,056 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' aloud.

What Reading Level is A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho'?

A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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