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’

Get Out of the Shower!: The Shower Scene and Hitchcock’s Narrative Style in ‘Psycho’

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.

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