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“One Shot: Hitchcock’s Crime Scenes” proposes a new auteurist methodology in which a single shot can be used to reveal the imprint of the director on a film. It expands upon Tom Gunning’s work on Fritz Lang to explore how reading backward from the single shot outward to the film as a whole, and in turn, to the director and their context is a particularly productive practice of film analysis. This chapter demonstrates this methodology through a discussion of Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous sequence, the shower scene in Psycho (1960). Special attention is also given to Hitchcock’s cameo shots, which are examples of Hitchcock imprinting himself on singular shots from his films and television series. Through these analyses this chapter sets up the complexities of the single shot approach, establishing how such a study is valuable for furthering scholarship on Hitchcock’s oeuvre.