What motifs can you identify in Psycho and what is their significance?-What is the role of voyeurism in Psycho? How does Hitchcock self-reflexively implicatethe spectator as a voyeur and what does this say about the cinematic experience?-What is the range of narration in the first part of Laura? When does this change? WhosePOV do we inhabit and how is that communicated? What is the significance of thischange?-Compare Laura’s opening and closing scenes. What resemblance do they have? Whatrange of story information do they give?-What is K. Thompson’s argument for the film’s “disunity” or its possible “closure withina dream”? How does POV function here and what is the significance of the dream?-What are the larger issues about the relationship between image and reality raised by thefilm’s prolific use of doubles? What are some examples of the “double” (e.g. Laura andher portrait, Laura and Diane Redfern, Lydecker’s disembodied voice, the prolific use ofshadows as signals of duplicity, disembodiment).-

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What is the role of voyeurism in Psycho? How does Hitchcock self-reflexively implicate
the spectator as a voyeur and what does this say about the cinematic experience?

What is the range of narration in the first part of Laura? When does this change? Whose
POV do we inhabit and how is that communicated? What is the significance of this
change?

Compare Laura’s opening and closing scenes. What resemblance do they have? What
range of story information do they give?

What is K. Thompson’s argument for the film’s “disunity” or its possible “closure within
a dream”? How does POV function here and what is the significance of the dream?

What are the larger issues about the relationship between image and reality raised by the
film’s prolific use of doubles? What are some examples of the “double” (e.g. Laura and
her portrait, Laura and Diane Redfern, Lydecker’s disembodied voice, the prolific use of
shadows as signals of duplicity, disembodiment).

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