The mother who towers irrefutably over the Hitchcock canon, Norma Bates of Psycho, is the original monstrous feminine. But how far is she, as Professor Tania Modleski points out, “That much maligned woman?” Absent but pervasive, her presence is consumptive, from the muddy swamp where Norman tries to conceal evidence of murder to the shrine-like bedroom preserved in the gothic family home. […]
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