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Vertigo. The Critic as Consumer. Manufactured Romantic Idol Recreated into a celestial goddess by a man= director’s relationship with star. Consumerist beauty. Beautiful landscapes Travelogue for increasingly mobile middle class After war- nation still wealthy Needs new sense of purpose.
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Vertigo The Critic as Consumer
Manufactured Romantic IdolRecreated into a celestial goddess by a man= director’s relationship with star
Consumerist beauty • Beautiful landscapes • Travelogue for increasingly mobile middle class • After war- nation still wealthy • Needs new sense of purpose
Loss of function • Scottie no longer a cop • Now a wanderer, gives up “surveillance” • America’s cold war aspirations- opening credits, panorama of SF • Track out, zoom in shots- the Vertigo shot • America’s industrial supremacy
The spiral motif • Hair- seduction • Camera panning around embracing couple • Staircase • Hallucinatory effect
Aristocracy and the nouveau riche • America vs. Europe • Scottie’s nightmare- Elster with Carlotta • Ambiguously foreign threat…….to America’s dominance