Lesson 3 - Key Issues - An Overview

Below you will find a prezi that offers an overview of some of the key issues & debates surrounding Vertigo.

In class, we will cover the issue of audience and critical reception in more detail, so the focus of this prezi is to offer an overview of the following key issues in the film:

1) plot & narrative
2) pure cinema / film form
3) characters
4) a film about spectatorship

Task:
Using your mind map, follow the Prezi path and make summary notes for each of the key areas. You will then be expected to feedback your findings to your group / class and use your notes to answer a Key Issues in Vertigo quiz.




You will find the sources used & referenced in this prezi, along with other relevant reading that discusses some of these key issues in more detail, in another post for Lesson 3.

Some Key Reading:

Martin Rubin, in his chapter called Hitchcock's Golden Era, in the book Thrillers,  considers the importance of Hitchcock's' body of work and addresses a number of the key issues identified in Vertigo, and culminates in his view that his film is about spectatorship due to Hitchcock's use of camera, narrative structure and use of characters.

Vertigo - Rubin Golden Era Chapter by candifilmstudies