Book chapter
Transition: The Wrong Man, Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock
The University Press of Kentucky
05 Feb 2015
Abstract
The Wrong Man and Vertigo,released in 1956 and 1958 respectively, are important transitional works in Hitchcock’s repertory. Both show the filmmaker cutting loose from the novelistic and familial influences that informed his earlier films and that were the legacy of Victorian culture. Hitchcock’s move to Hollywood in 1939 and the influence of David O. Selznick initially gave new form and vigor to this legacy. But Hitchcock was also an observer of the American scene, and he found in the images and social conventions of mid-twentieth-century America a means of representing changes in himself. By the early 1960s, the conditions
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Details
- Title
- Transition
- Creators
- Paula Marantz Cohen
- Publication Details
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pennoni Honors College
- Identifiers
- 991020836598404721