Vertigo
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- Created on: 08-05-17 15:27
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- Vertigo
- Critical Debates
- A film about film: identification/ obsession/ misrecognition
- A film about film: the gendered look, the female object
- The significance of this as Hitchcock film
- Reoccurring motifs and the possible symbolic patterning of the film
- Interpreting the Madeline/Judy spilt
- The spectator relationship to Scottie as the films develops
- The use of locations
- The success of otherwise of the film as thriller
- Difficulties in taking the film seriously from a narrative realist perspective and problems of audience response that result from this
- The film's canonical state
- The films critical reception
- Critical approaches
- Auteur Theory
- Narrative theory
- Genre Theory
- Feminism
- Psychoanalysis
- Representation theory: Hegemony/ Marxism/pluralism
- Themes and Motifs and symbols
- Themes
- Death as both attractive and frightening
- The impenetrable nature of appearances (relates to fantasy versus reality)
- The folly of Romantic delusion
- Motifs
- Power and Freedom
- Tunnels and Corridors
- Bouquets of Flowers
- Spirals
- Symbols
- Sequoia Trees
- Green
- Themes
- Critical Debates
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