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Introduction

Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is nowadays considered one of the top ten masterpieces in the history of cinema. Lets analyse some arguments for and against this statement.

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The psychological complexity this film develops is so deep and restless that makes the public totally captured by the feature. This is due to how Hitchcock presented love, doubt and suspense.[Refererences:

1)Scorsese, Martin, “Obsessed with Vertigo” (1997), a Harrison Engle film

2)Modleski, Tania , "The woman who knew too much, Hitchcock and feminist theory" (1988)

3) Truffaut, Francois, Hitchcock New York: Simon & Schuster, (1967)]

By contrast, lets analyse how this genial work could be related to Hitchcock’s personality and his personal life experiences. In fact, reading through his biography and early life events, this could be a legitimate query.

1) Peele, Stanton, summer 1986, Morristown, New Jersey, “Personality, Pathology, and The Act of Creation:  The Case of Alfred Hitchcock”, The Stanton Peel Addiction website, available from:

http://www.peele.net/lib/hitch.html

2) Mork Rachel, “Alfred Hitchcock biography”, available from:

http://www.life123.com/arts-culture/directors/alfred-hitchcock/alfred-hitchcock-biography.shtml#STS=g1jy00i1.ovh

Conclusion

Hitchcock’s works are strongly perfumed by his personal experiences. His strict sense for the law and thus his complex of guiltiness, his particular relationship with his mother, can certenly witnesses it. However, he was the Master of Suspense, and he still is. And that is not only due to his private events, but also because of his will, great power of organisation and, of course, that bit of madness that makes every legend to be such. Thus, Vertigo was undoubtedly the product of this genius mix; it was inspired both by his anxieties (since his wife was having health problems in that period) and his ever-green audacity.

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Bibliography

Book References:

Aulier, Dan, “Vertigo, the making of a Hitchcock classic“, (1998) St. Martin’s Griffin, New York

Engle, Harrison, “Obsessed with Vertigo” (1997), USA, American Movie Classics

Finler, Joel, “Alfred Hitchcock, the Hollywood years“, 1992, B.T. Batsford Ltd

Gottlieb, Sidney , “Hitchcock on Hitchcock, selected writings and interviews” (1995), USA, Berkeley : University of California Press

Modleski, Tania , “The woman who knew too much, Hitchcock and feminist theory” (1988), New York, Routledge

Spoto, Donal, “The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, fifty years of his moving pictures” (1976), DoubleDay Dolphin Book

[From this documentary I quoted the followings:

McDowall, Roddy, narrator of "Obsessed with Vertigo"

Taylor, Samuel A. , Vertigo's screen writer.

Scorsese, Martin, director

Katz C., James, Restoration Producer.]

Scott. G., Helen, “Francois Truffaut, Hitchcock” New York, Simon & Schuster, (1967)

Web References

Pictures and videos URL (in appearance order)

Pictures:

Image available from:

http://www.isntlifeterrible.com/uploaded_images/ab12-759350.jpg

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http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/Widescreen/wingvv2.htm

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Picture available from:

http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/dvd/archives/Vertigo_Art.jpg

Accessed (2009/10/31)

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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__uACkPWjuQU/Slks0Rb2bJI/AAAAAAAABvU/Yao0DRo9i8U/s400/Women+Who+Knew.bmp

Accessed (2009/10/31)

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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Gdt6SgFdNNw/SiKd4DpTTEI/AAAAAAAAMU0/54-HFqmgQLc/s400/madeleine_drowns.jpg

Accessed (2009/10/31)

Picture available from:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/herrmann%20hitchcock%20sleeping/TGTE/herrmannhitchcock.jpg

Accessed (2009/11/01)

Picture available from:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f9pvdIisA48/Sek0rRdAwiI/AAAAAAAAADA/aPVC5seTmnM/s320/hitch.fontaine.olivier.jpg

Accessed (2009/11/02)

Picture avalaible from:

http://www.matthewhunt.com/blog/images/thehollywoodstudiosystem.jpg

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http://noticiasda.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/paramount-logo-history.jpg

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http://www.paramount.com/studio/history

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Videos:

“Vertigo Shots in Many Movies”, 2007, avalaible from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y48R6-iIYHs

Accessed (2009/10/25)

“Alfred Hitchcock: The Difference Between Mystery & Suspense”, 2009, AFI, avalaible from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xs111uH9ss

Accessed (2009/10/29)

“Alfred Hitchcock was traumatized by his mother”, 2007, avalaible from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q-QAsi7Ge0

Accessed (2009/10/31)

“Eileen Farrell Tristan and Isolde”, available from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKki2TzH01M

Accessed (2009/10/31)

“Vertigo – Scene d’Amour – Bernard Herrmann”, available from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jic6-CUmAmE&feature=related

Accessed (2009/11/01)

“Alfred Hitchcock interview (part 1 of 6) Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder Fall 1973”, available from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv4BwEGPQbM

Accessed (2009/11/01)

“Vertigo *part 12*”, available from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryUL2csu_ns

Accessed (2009/11/03)

Web references (Written Material)

Travers, James, 2008, “Summary”, available from: http://cinemaforever.com/CF_Vertigo_1958_rev.html

Accessed (2009/10/25)

Press, Salem, 1-1-1994, “Vertigo”, Magill’s survey of cinema, available from: http://hitchcock.tv/essays/vertigoessay.html

Accessed (2009/10/25)

Wikipedia , 28 September 2009, “Dolly zoom”, available from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_zoom

Accessed (2009/10/25)

Petzold, Charles, March 7, 2007 New York, N.Y., “Petzold Book Blog”, Copyright Charles Petzold, available from:

http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2007/03/070716.html

Accessed (2009/10/25)

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/42/staircases.htm

Accessed (2009/10/28)

http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=49

Accessed (2009/10/28)

Peele, Stanton, summer 1986, Morristown, New Jersey, “Personality, Pathology, and The Act of Creation:  The Case of Alfred Hitchcock”, The Stanton Peel Addiction website, available from:

http://www.peele.net/lib/hitch.html

Accessed (2009/10/30)

Wikipedia, 26 July 2009, “Stanton Peele”, available from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_Peele

Accessed (2009/10/30)

University of Southern California, 2009, “Tania Modleski”, available from:

http://college.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003547&CFID=8321174&CFTOKEN=55226582

Accessed (2009/10/31)

Mork Rachel, “Alfred Hitchcock biography”, available from:

http://www.life123.com/arts-culture/directors/alfred-hitchcock/alfred-hitchcock-biography.shtml#STS=g1jy00i1.ovh

Accessed (2009/10/31)

Wikipedia, 21 September 2009, “Eileen Farrell”, available from: