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That makes me realise that another unseen photograph in Psycho is the one of Marion which Arbogast gets Norman to look at. The first time he presents it to him it isn't seen at all; the second time it's glimpsed VERY briefly when he proffers it, but not when Norman is looking at it (Norman then dubs it "not a very good picture"). This in turn makes me realise that of course what an unseen photograph will usually come down to (I would imagine) is the denial of a P.O.V shot - which might tell us we're watching a particular type of film, or relating to a character in a particular way. On 6 December 2010 17:59, Ken Mogg <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I found my copy of the PSYCHO novel by Robert Bloch. Chapter Fifteen > describes the photo that leaps out at Lila examining Norman's library in his > 'singularly small, singularly cramped' bedroom as being 'almost > pathologically pornographic'. (Among Norman's other volumes is a > translation of Huysmans's 'La Bas' and one of Sade's 'Justine'.) The film > literalises all of this, but omits - for obvious reasons - showing the > contents of the bound volume that we see Lila open. > > - KM > > -- > Film-Philosophy > After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are > replying to > To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: > [log in to unmask] > Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html > For technical help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon > -- > Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com/ > Film-Philosophy Conference (6-8 July 2011): > http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/ > Contact: [log in to unmask] > -- > -- Film-Philosophy After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For technical help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon -- Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com/ Film-Philosophy Conference (6-8 July 2011): http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/ Contact: [log in to unmask] --