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How Does Hitchcock create and maintain suspense in his 1960s film 'Psycho'? Focus on the build up to the shower scene.  

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How Does Hitchcock create and maintain suspense in his 1960s film 'Psycho'? Focus on the build up to the shower scene. The film psycho was produced in the 1960s by Alfred Hitchcock. This was a very different film not because of the story line but because of all the unseen scenes in the film such as the bra scene where spectator see a woman's bra to us this is an everyday thing to see in a movie but in the 60s this was a controversial thing. If a flushing of a toilet was a big deal a woman's bra would have been enormous. The promotion for psycho was also massive as even people weren't allowed to enter the cinema as the cinema doors were shut. Also the film used unordinary marketing and promoting techniques therefore the audience will think the film would be similar. This created tension before the film was even...

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