Vertigo

BFI Film Classics

Charles Barr

British Film Institute

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The author documents the crucial role of screenwriters Alec Coppell and Samuel Taylor and, by a combination of textual and contextual analysis, explores the reasons why Vertigo has come to exert such a continuing fascination both on audiences and on a wide range of critics and theorists.

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Judy  rated it  
Jun 2, 2011
I first saw the movie Vertigo as a child and it remains one of my favorite Hitchcock movies. This tale of romantic/sexual obsession, of psychological manipulation and deception has an abrupt tragic ending unlike others of Hitch's movies of the same time period, i.e., North by Northwest, Rear Window ...more
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Charles Barr

Charles Barr is Professor of Film at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Ealing Studios (rev. edn, 1999) and English Hitchcock (1999). He was researcher and co-writer of Stephen Frears's film Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema (1995).

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Vertigo
BFI Film Classics
Charles Barr

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British Film Institute
April 2002
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ISBN: 9780851709185
ISBN10: 0851709184
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches,
$14.95
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