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Week 9 Lecture : Music and Art in Hitchcock’s films Screening : Vertigo (1957)

Week 9 Lecture : Music and Art in Hitchcock’s films Screening : Vertigo (1957). Readings. Readings: Cohen, T. Volume 2 Cohen Volume 2 Part III Jump Cuts Time machine pp 107 - 137 Matrixide pp 138-168 Recommended Readings: Sloan, J., Hitchcock : The Definitive Bibliography (pp. 289-295)

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Week 9 Lecture : Music and Art in Hitchcock’s films Screening : Vertigo (1957)

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  1. Week 9Lecture: Music and Art in Hitchcock’s films Screening: Vertigo (1957)

  2. Readings Readings:Cohen, T. Volume 2 Cohen Volume 2 Part III Jump Cuts Time machine pp 107 - 137 Matrixide pp 138-168 Recommended Readings: Sloan, J., Hitchcock: The Definitive Bibliography (pp. 289-295) White, S. "Vertigo and Problems of Knowledge in Feminist Film Theory" (Allen pp279-307) Hitchcock "On Music in Films" (1934) (Reader)

  3. Origins & Genre A psychological thriller: Film noir/Drama The film is an adaptation of the French novel Sueurs froids: d’entre les morts (Cold Sweat: From Among the Dead) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac; Screenplay:Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor

  4. Actors James Stewart - “Scottie" Ferguson Kim Novak - Madeleine Elster & Judy Barton Barbara Bel Geddes - Marjorie "Midge" Wood Tom Helmore - Gavin Elster

  5. Jimmie Stewart (1908-1997) James Maitland Stewartpopularly known as Jimmy Stewart. Parents of Scottish origin, Alexander M. Stewart and Elizabeth Ruth Jackson, in Indiana Penn. He was the eldest of three children (two younger sisters, Virginia and Mary) and father a prosperous hardware store owner. Also military career in USAF rose to rank of Brigadier General

  6. Jimmy Stewart Jimmy Stewart was named by the AFI the third greatest male star of all time . He is one of the most represented stars with five films on the list of the top 100 films and is one of the most represented stars with ten films on the list of 400 nominees. Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo # 9 ; Frank Capra's It’s a Wonderful life #20; Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington #26 George Cukor The Philadelphia Story #44 and Hitchcock’s Rear Window # 48

  7. AFI Top ten Actors • Humphrey Bogart Katharine Hepburn • Cary Grant Bette Davis • James Stewart Audrey Hepburn • Marlon Brando Ingrid Bergman • Fred Astaire Greta Garbo • Henry Fonda Marilyn Monroe • Clark Gable Elizabeth Taylor • James Cagney Judy Garland • Spencer Tracy Marlene Dietrich • Charles Chaplin Joan Crawford

  8. Kim Novak (1933- Kim Novak (Feb 13 1933) was born Marilyn Pauline Novak in Chicago Illinois; a Roman Catholic of Czech extraction (cw. Annie Ondra in H’s Blackmail). Her father was a railroad clerk and former teacher; her mother also was a former teacher, and Novak has a sister.

  9. Some Locations Madeleine jumps into the sea at Fort Point underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Coit Tower appears in many background shots; Hitchcock once said that he included it as a phallic symbol

  10. Locations The Mission San Juan Bautista where Madeleine falls from the tower, is a real place, but the tower had to be matted in with a painting using studio effects. The gallery where Carlotta's painting appears is the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. The Carlotta Valdes portrait was lost after being removed from the gallery, but many of the other paintings in the background of the portrait scenes are still on view showing its age is a replica of one that can still be found at Muir Woods.

  11. Muir Woods National Monument is in fact represented by Big Basin Redwoods State Park however, the cutaway of the redwood tree At Mission Dolores for many years tourists could see the actual Carlotta Valdes headstone featured in the film (created by the props department). Eventually, the headstone was removed as the mission considered it disrespectful to the dead to house a tourist attraction grave for a fictional person.

  12. The McKittrick Hotel was a privately-owned Victorian mansion from the 1880s at Gough and Eddy Streets. It was torn down in 1959 and is now an athletic practice field for Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School. • The sanatorium is 351 Buena Vista East, formerly St. Joseph's Hospital, now Park Hill condominiums. It looks much the same from the outside; the best view is from the Corona Heights neighborhood park. • The Empire Hotel is a real place but is now called the York Hotel at 940 Sutter Street. Judy's room was created but the flashing green neon of the "Hotel Empire" sign outside is based on the actual hotel's sign (it was replaced when the Hotel was re-named). • Ernie's Restaurant (847 Montgomery St.) was a real place in Chinatown, not far from Scottie's apartment. It is no longer operating.

  13. Vertigo Robin Wood’s Hitchcock's Films (1968), which calls the film “Hitchcock's masterpiece to date and one of the four or five most profound and beautiful films the cinema has yet given us.” Release in 1996 of a restored print to great acclaim

  14. Vertigo Rankings 2005, Vertigo came in second (to Goodfellas) in British magazine Total Films book of the top 100 films of all time and 2nd in Sight and Sound list.Vertigo is #9 on the AFI list. The film has been deemed “culturally significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry

  15. Vertigo has been described as “an intense psychological study of a desperate, insecure man's twisted psyche (necrophilia) and loss of equilibrium. It follows the troubled man's obsessive search to end his vertigo (and deaths that result from his 'falling in love' affliction) and becomes a masterful study of romantic longing, identity, voyeurism, treachery and death, female victimization and degrading manipulation, the feminine ‘ideal,’ and fatal sexual obsession for a cool-blonde heroine. Hitchcock was noted for films with voyeuristic themes, and this one could be construed as part of a trilogy’ of films with that preoccupation:Rear Window (1954)Vertigo (1958) Psycho (1960)

  16. Cinematic techniques Hitchcock used two simultaneous devices to achieve the effect and create an approximation of the disoriented psychological state of the Jimmy Stewart character - the camera both tracks away from the subject while also zooming towards it. The simultaneous, opposing movements - a forward zoom and a reverse tracking shot - also represent the attraction and repulsion that the main protagonists experience in their relationships. The camera effect is used in this scene, and in the first mission stairwell sequence.

  17. Week 10 Lecture: Surveillance through two Rear Windows Screenings: Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock; Ross Bleckner Rear Window (clips) (1999) Readings: Cohen Vol 2 Part IV The Black Sun 8 Prosthesis of the Visible pp169-190

  18. Recommended readings Readings: Cohen Vol 2 Part IV The Black Sun 8 Prosthesis of the Visible pp169-190 Modleski, T. "The Master's Dollhouse" Rear Window Stam, R and Pearson, R., "Hitchcock's Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism" (Reader) Belton, J. The Space of Rear Window" (reader)

  19. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC5UhVwcIyg Rear Window Origins: Cornell Woolrich’s short story “It Had to be Murder”John Michael Hayes (screenplay)

  20. Cast James Stewart...L. B. JefferiesGrace Kelly... Lisa Carol Fremont Wendell Corey... Detective Lt. Thomas J. DoyleThelma Ritter...Stella , Insurance company nurse Raymond Burr... Lars Thorwald Judith Evelyn..Miss Lonelyheart Ross Bagdasarian... Songwriter Georgine Darcy... Miss Torso Sara Berner... Wife living above Thorwald

  21. Cast continued Frank Cady... Husband living above Thorwald Jesslyn Fax...Sculpting neighbor with hearing aid Rand Harper...Newlywed man Irene Winston..Mrs. Anna Thorwald Havis Davenport...Newlywed woman Marla English.. Girl at songwriter's party

  22. Heat wave During a heat wave, normally itinerant news photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) finds himself confined by a broken leg to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment.  Each day, and often into the night, he has little to do but gaze out his rear window at the activities of his neighbours in the surrounding apartments. 

  23. Jeff’s main visitors are his fiancée Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly), a high-fashion model and Stella (Thelma Ritter), an insurance company nurse who provides him with therapeutic massages. 

  24. Heat Wave Plot device More than a plot device explaining why everyone has their windows open, the heat wave intensifies a crisis for which it also serves as a metaphor for vulnerability. windows open, the heat intensifies a crisis for which it also serves as a metaphor

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