ACF #3 Psycho

Titus & Eric Cook discuss Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho--the conflict of innocence & respectability playing out against modern liberation. In post-war prosperity, people get a sense of the horror lying beyond the city--the ancient Biblical-Greek tragedy identification of the home as the place of tragedy & the modern discovery of meaningless crimes of passion. Redemption collapses into justice, justice into a search for truth. Society, the law / the police, & the modern science of psychiatry doom innocence by ignoring the problem of evil. Biblical stories & Renaissance art are in conflict.