Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral

ISBN-13: 9783319551876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 155 str.

Robert J. Belton

Opis

This book offers a new approach to film studies by showing how our brains use our interpretations of various other films in order to understand Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Hermeneutic Spiral

Chapter 3: Vertigo

Chapter 4: Forcing Insight with Sight and the Availability Heuristic

Chapter 5: Vertigo, Duchamp’s Anémic Cinéma, and a Žižekian Brassiere

Chapter 6: Vertigo, Man Ray’s L’Etoile de mer, and Flowers

Chapter 7: Vertigo, Kubrick’s The Shining, Spellbound and Liberty

Chapter 8: Vertigo, Lynch’s Twin Peaks and the Record Player

Chapter 9: Vertigo, Etrog’s Spiral, The Shining and Traumatic Memory

Chapter 10: Vertigo, The Shining, Spatial Mental Models, and the Uncanny

O autorze

Robert J. Belton has taught film studies, popular music, and art history and theory at The University of British Columbia, McMaster, Western and Queen’s Universities. He is author of Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture and other books.