Despina Kakoudaki

Despina Kakoudaki teaches film, literature and the history of technology and new media at American University in Washington DC. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley, and is currently working on a book on robots and cyborgs (also replicants and Cylons). With Brad Epps she has co-edited All About Almodovar: A Passion for Cinema, a new collection of critical essays on the work of Pedro Almodovar (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Get Out of the Shower!: The Shower Scene and Hitchcock’s Narrative Style in ‘Psycho’
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Get Out of the Shower!: The Shower Scene and Hitchcock’s Narrative Style in ‘Psycho’

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 / 13 October 2019

In Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock subverts the narrative expectations laid out in the early parts, producing something very different from the suspense film that we anticipate.