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The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration
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2011
Summary
In Sight and Sound magazine's 2012 poll of the greatest films of all time, Vertigo placed at the top of the list, supplanting Citizen Kane. A favorite among critics, it also made the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies where it ranked in the top 10. Often regarded as Hitchcock's most personal work, the film explores such themes as obsession, exploitation, and voyeurism.
In The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration, Douglas A. Cunningham has assembled provocative essays that examine the uniquely integrated relationship that the 1958 film enjoys with the histories and cultural imaginations of California and, more specifically, the San Francisco Bay Area. Contributors to this collection ponder a number of topics such as the ways in which Vertigo resurrects the narratives of San Francisco's violent past; how sightseeing informs the act of watching the film; the significance that landmarks in the film hold in our collective cultural memory; and the variety of ways in which Vertigo enthusiasts commemorate the film. The essays also ask larger questions about the specificities of place and the role such specificities play in our comprehensive efforts to understand this layered and seminal film.
Because of its interdisciplinary approach, The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo will have a broad appeal to scholars of film, anthropology, geography, ethnic studies, the history of California and the West, tourism, and, of course, anyone with an abiding interest in the work of Alfred Hitchcock.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-5747-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8123-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
336
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 01. Whose Grave? Hitchcock’s Vertigo and the Sad Specters of the Mission Dolores Cemetery No access
Chapter 02. Baroque Vertigo No access
Chapter 03. “Souvenirs of a Killing” No access
Chapter 04. VistaVision and the Cinematic Landscape of Vertigo No access
Chapter 05. Alfred Hitchcock’s San Francisco No access
Chapter 06. “It’s All There, It’s No Dream” No access
Chapter 07. The Frustration of Reality/Illusion No access
Chapter 08. Travelogue as Traumalogue No access
Chapter 09. Beyond Location No access
Chapter 10. In the Gallery of the Gaze No access
Chapter 11. Proposed Locations No access
Chapter 12. The Vestiges of Vertigo in Contemporary Art No access
