... between the characters of the narrative themselves. The final look is what primarily concerns this essay as all of the films contain an awareness of the elements of objectification and scopophilia either in the characters themselves or through subtext. She subtly bemoans these tendencies and offers hopes to "[transcend] outworn or oppressive forms, or [dare] to break with normal pleasurable expectations in order ... gaze, and this movie (by introducing her to us through the medium of television) allows us to viewers to observe ourselves facilitating this process. After moving into a new ...

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... knife to Marion, he was slashing away at everything that had gone before, at expectations of heroes and bad guys, at every cliché of what was supposed to happen, at the polite fantasy of good triumphing over evil. The movies would never be the same again. Virtually every aspect of film narrative that the audience had come to accept as normal was overthrown, just ... (Janet Leigh) is murdered in the first half of Psycho. Audiences accustomed to the traditional narrative style wanted a character they could consistently identify with, yet Hitchcock denied them that comfort by killing off ...

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