Vertigo-alfred hitchcock
In the 1958 film, Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock examines the vast intricacies of the dizzyinging effects of vertigo. Hitchcock examined the ailment in a physical, mental, and almost supernatural form. Some of the insights are easy to spot, but others are buried deep within the cognitive caverns of the scripting, acting, and production of the film. According to Doctor Robert Herting and Doctor Nora Frohberg of the University of Iowa, vertigo is “A sense that the environment is spinning around or a sensation of feeling impelled forward, backward, or to either side.” In Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the main character, John “Scottie” Ferguson has a severe case of vertigo caused by high altitudes. If Mr. Ferguson looks down from a place of an elevated stature, he becomes almost instantly dizzied and disoriented. Although the film capitalizes on Scottie’s infirmity, the film itself is meant to give the audience a “vertigoish” sensation through the use of a twisting and entwined story line, carefully planned camera angles, and dialoging which changes course several times throughout the work. Th
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