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In “The cinema of filmmakers”, a 1985 radio broadcast, Claude-Jean Philippe, Caroline Champetier and Pierre Donnadieu revisit Psychosis by Alfred Hitchcock, deciphering the emotional power of the film and questioning the very figure of the director. Between analysis of the shower scene, filming anecdotes and an excerpt from the famous conversation with François Truffaut in 1962, the show reveals how Hitchcock conceived Psychosis to arouse mass emotion. His challenge: to manipulate the viewer through purely technical visual and sound effects, reaching a new intensity, independent of the plot and the characters.
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Psychosis: The art of provoking mass emotion
“It is a great satisfaction for us to use cinematic art to create mass emotion. And with Psycho, we accomplished that.” — Excerpt from a conversation between Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut (1962)
In this program, Claude-Jean Philippe, accompanied by Caroline Champetier and Pierre Donnadieu, evokes a famous conversation between Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffautduring which the two filmmakers explore Hitchcock’s work in detail. The director confides that, for Psychosisits main objective was to provoke an intense reaction in the audience, not through the story or the characters, but through the technical elements: editing, image, and sound. His greatest satisfaction with Psychosis East “to have acted on the public“.
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The Paths of Philosophy Listen later
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- The cinema of filmmakers – “Psychosis” by Alfred Hitchcock (1st broadcast: 05/19/1985)
- By Claude-Jean Philippe
- With Caroline Champetier (director of photography and director) and Pierre Donnadieu
- Archive INA/Radio France
