Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and 'The Art of Pure Cinema'

A Film as Text on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). The film marked a departure for Hitchcock and can be viewed as one of his most experimental films. The director regarded the film as his most powerful demonstration of what he referred to as 'the art of pure cinema'; Hitchcock described this as the assembly of pieces of film to create fright. By Peter Wilshire.