Being scared is not an emotion I enjoy. I don’t movies that deal with horror, with psychological trauma, with evil. I don’t even like films with flying monkeys! So suffice it to say, I have not seen many Alfred Hitchcock movies. In fact, The Birds is the only one I have seen. But I do know a lot about them: Hitchcock’s films are part of our zeitgeist, part of our shared cultural heritage. And perhaps none more so than “Psycho.” Even if we have never seen the movie, we know about the Bates Motel, the rocking chair mother, and the shower scene. The tropes of the film are everywhere. And so in 1963/64, Dylan played with the tropes of the film and created a fun song…with a slight political point to make.