Insight into Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho, is a great movie to keep in mind when choosing a film for the final project. Hitchcock is recognized as an auteur because in Psycho, Hitchcock introduces various film techniques that greatly heighten the feeling of terror and reflect the society and culture of the 1960s. For instance, Hitchcock introduced the idea of voyeurism from the point-of-view of Norman Bates with the roaming camera to spy on Marion Crane as she undresses, making the audience drawn into the suspense of the film. In relation to the links and the auteur theory, Psycho combines elements from Hitchcock’s previous films such as, the emphasis on the rooms and setting to suggest the somewhat “psychotic” condition of human nature. Psycho is a highly recommended film to be further explored with the major project because it can be examined in terms of a formalistic approach through the musical score played and the close-ups. Also, a nationalistic approach is witnessed because Hitchcock directed the film to reflect what he believed would accommodate the changing audience through a modernized style where,

"Rather than blatantly displaying nudity and violence, Hitchcock had hinted subtly at their presence.”

In analyzing the genre, Hitchcock used traditional elements of horror film and incorporated his own. Finally, the auteur theory can be discovered and how it influenced Hitchcock to direct Psycho in black-and-white to help grasp the depths of the unconscious human mind.
Analysis of the rooms (Bates Motel), characters (Norman Bates and Marion Crane), and plot.