The movie psycho can be seen as a work of Hichtcock as hitchcock was known as the master os suspense and many of the best scenes in psycho were made so bacause of the suspense. such as the shower scene and when Arbogaust dies. Those scenes are both made powerful because of the susppense they create. The  film was shot in black and white because paramount pictures didnt think the movie would do well so they gave him a small budget to work with. Also Hitcock thought the movie would be to gory in color. when the movie was being shot Hitchcock made it clear that he would not allow anyone involved in production of the film to tell anyone about the films plots, he also made sure that when movie was being screened in movie theaters people knew they needed to get there on time and that late admitance is not allowed.

The movie represents a specific culture as it was the first films to start to break away from the Motion picture production code. During this time period television was being popularized and movie producers had to find a way to differentiate them selves from the T.V shows wich followed a more strict code then the motion pictures code. movies started to slowly break "laws of the code" and Psycho is a prime example. In the film it breaks several rules as you are not suppossed to feel sympathy for wrong doers, Crane steals 40,000 dollars and is a wrong doer but you feel sypathy for her when she dies in the infamouse shower scene. They were not supposed sexual scenes that were outside of marriage or voyerism and Psycho does both these things with Crane and her lover in the beggining of the film and when Bates looks through the peep whole he made into Cranes room. Also the concept of murder was not to be presented in detail and the infamous shower scene is regarded as the most brutal murder of its time. Also the flushing of the toilet in Psycho casued a big uproar as it was the first time a toilet was seen and heard fully in a motion picture. Hitchcock made psycho as to come back from not being able to film two other movies that fell through in production.