Tag: Vertigo
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HITCHCOCK’S WOMEN: “Mother’s Here” – Freud, Motherhood and Feminism in VERTIGO (1958)
As co-writer of the Hitchcockian Broadcast Signal Intrusion, Phil Drinkwater knows a thing or two about layered, cyclic mysteries. Here in a special guest essay for our Hitchcock’s Women series he tumbles through the dizzying dualism of gender in Hitch’s Vertigo… Many of the filmmakers of the 40s and 50s might be described as Freudians,…
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HITCHCOCK’S WOMEN: Constructing and Resurrecting the Ideal Woman – A Portrait of Judy Barton in VERTIGO (1958) – PART II
Concluding her two-part analysis, Rebecca McCallum continues her investigation into the representation of gender in Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Power and Possession Scottie believes he is following Madeline without her knowledge, but in actual fact she is leading him, albeit under the direction of Elster. On one occasion he follows her to a graveyard, linking Judy to…
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HITCHCOCK’S WOMEN: Constructing and Resurrecting the Ideal Woman – A Portrait of Judy Barton in VERTIGO (1958) – PART I
In the first of a new regular series Rebecca McCallum investigates gender in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, beginning with a two-part analysis of the incomparable Vertigo. A psychological vortex with no resolution, Vertigo is an intoxicating exploration of love, obsession and the unobtainable. Set amongst the cultural landmarks of San Francisco, retired detective Scottie…
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