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Hollywood Elite: Oscar Directors, 1927-2027 Book Proposal By Emanuel Levy, Ph.D. Professor of Film and Sociology Author of 9 film books August 10, 2025 Proposal registered at the Library of Congress Hollywood Elite: Oscar Directors, 1927-present Tribute to Robert Merton’s Program in the Sociology of Science at Columbia University (my Ph.D. 1978) and Harriet Zuckerman’s […]
0 Psycho: Notes–Ending, Food and Sex, Home, Characters
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Psycho: Notes April 11, 2025–972w Ending Psycho ends with the grinning face of Norman, his mother skull superimposed. No previous film had ended with such a griming question mark. There is no rational lancer. Psycho ends with smug psychiatrist in the cop house, a seeming place of order that can impose order on nothing. The […]
