Left Curve (2014) - The Meaning of Vertigo in the Utopian City of Collapsed Time

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• article: The Meaning of Vertigo in the Utopian City of Collapsed Time
• author(s): Christy Rodgers
• journal: Left Curve (01/Jan/2014)
• issue: issue 38, page 5
• journal ISSN: 0160-1857
• publisher: Left Curve Publications
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann, British Film Institute, Coit Tower, San Francisco, California, Fort Point, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Martin Scorsese, Motion pictures, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, Rebecca (1940), Remakes & sequels, San Francisco, California, Slavoj Žižek, Vertigo (1958)

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Abstract

[...] the bizarre transformation of Jimmy Stewart, the ultimate guy-next-door, into the creepy alter ego of the obese, manipulative, blonde-obsessed Hitchcock is only one of the movie's embedded mirrors (although it is also a lens through which many fans view the film, since Hitchcock, the ultimate obsessive-cam-auteur, has been an industrial-scale generator of character studies). [...]less marketable ghosts also haunt the city: the deadly anti-Chinese riot of 1877, the 1934 San Francisco general strike (the first use of tear gas on civilians for crowd control), the mass removal and internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the bloody San Francisco State student strike, the White Night riots.