Emanuel Levy
Cinema 24/7
Harry Cohn, head of Columbia, famously said:
“If my fanny squirms, it’s bad. If my fanny doesn’t squirm, it’s good. It’s as simple as that.”
Hitchcock was as much a social psychologist of his spectators as a formal stylist of the genre.
He famously stated: “I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.”
When Psycho was released in 1960, Hitchcock observed:
“The process through which we take the audience, it’s rather like taking them through the haunted house at the playground.”
Jean-Luc Godard:
“The cinema exists in the distance between the audience and the screen.”
Movie Audiences: Perception by Directors (Hitchcock) and Studio Heads (Harry Cohn)
Harry Cohn, head of Columbia, famously said:
“If my fanny squirms, it’s bad. If my fanny doesn’t squirm, it’s good. It’s as simple as that.”
Hitchcock was as much a social psychologist of his spectators as a formal stylist of the genre.
He famously stated: “I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.”
When Psycho was released in 1960, Hitchcock observed:
“The process through which we take the audience, it’s rather like taking them through the haunted house at the playground.”
Jean-Luc Godard:
“The cinema exists in the distance between the audience and the screen.”