Philip J. Skerry is Professor Emeritus at Lakeland Community College, Ohio, USA, and is the author of Psycho in the Shower: The History of Cinema’s Most Famous Scene (2009), as well as numerous articles for scholarly journals. He lives with his wife Amy, a therapist, in Beachwood, Ohio, USA.

In the end, Dark Energy has the considerable virtue of raising questions not only about the value of the particular scientific analogies he develops but of the value of argument by analogy in general.

• Introduction; 1: Science, Technology and Hitchcock; 2: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Physics; 3: Neurocinematics and Hitchcock's theory of suspense; 4: Three "Princes of Dark Energy": Uncle Charlie, Bruno, and Norman Bates; 5: Space and Place; 6: Vertigo and Psycho - The shower and the bell tower; Conclusion; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Philip J. Skerry is Professor Emeritus at Lakeland Community College, Ohio, USA, and is the author of Psycho in the Shower: The History of Cinema’s Most Famous Scene (2009), as well as numerous articles for scholarly journals. He lives with his wife Amy, a therapist, in Beachwood, Ohio, USA.

In the end, Dark Energy has the considerable virtue of raising questions not only about the value of the particular scientific analogies he develops but of the value of argument by analogy in general.

• Introduction; 1: Science, Technology and Hitchcock; 2: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Physics; 3: Neurocinematics and Hitchcock's theory of suspense; 4: Three "Princes of Dark Energy": Uncle Charlie, Bruno, and Norman Bates; 5: Space and Place; 6: Vertigo and Psycho - The shower and the bell tower; Conclusion; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Philip J. Skerry is Professor Emeritus at Lakeland Community College, Ohio, USA, and is the author of Psycho in the Shower: The History of Cinema’s Most Famous Scene (2009), as well as numerous articles for scholarly journals. He lives with his wife Amy, a therapist, in Beachwood, Ohio, USA.

In the end, Dark Energy has the considerable virtue of raising questions not only about the value of the particular scientific analogies he develops but of the value of argument by analogy in general.

• Introduction; 1: Science, Technology and Hitchcock; 2: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Physics; 3: Neurocinematics and Hitchcock's theory of suspense; 4: Three "Princes of Dark Energy": Uncle Charlie, Bruno, and Norman Bates; 5: Space and Place; 6: Vertigo and Psycho - The shower and the bell tower; Conclusion; Filmography; Bibliography; Index