As a result, beginning with the early days of silent film, the matter over the content of movies and the need to regulate it emerged in the American society and it continued to arise even more often after the introduction of sound film. ... In the same way, Hitchcock's Psycho tackles the themes of gender normalcy and blurs the lines between normality and deviance, by the juxtaposition of the characters of Normal Bates and Sam Loomis, with one representing the stable male sexuality while the other disrupts it.13 Hitchcock is aware that society is changing and claims that his choices reflec...

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The lived experience of the aunt is blame which leads her to silent her "inseminators" name and commits suicide to escape the harsh experience of blame and humiliation to the village people and herself. ... It is held within ideology, but also manages to distance itself from it, to the point where it permits us to "feel" and "perceive" the ideology from which it springs" (Eagleton 18). ...

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