vertigo
In one of the countless reviews of Vertigo the inevitable subject of obsession was stated in the following manner: that film is not a study of obsession, but the obsession itself. In other words, the phenomenon of obsession is present in it not as an outside object of "investigation", but as the film's own intrinsic characteristic. Therefore, it does not investigate this phenomenon but "produces" it, i.e. instigates obsession. Such inversion, perhaps unusual and …
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…too long exposition. It was only later that people recognized the fact that Vertigo was another work of genius by the esteemed director.
Bibliography
1) Auiler, Dan Vertigo: The Making Of a Hitchcock Classic (1986; Griffin Trade Paperback)
2) Auiler, Dan Hitchcock’s Notebooks: An Authorized and Illustrated Look Into The Creative Mind Of Alfred Hitchcock (1983, Avon Books)
3) Spoto, Donald The Dark Side Of Genius: The Life Of Alfred Hitchcock (1980, Da Capo Press)
4) Hitchcock, Alfred Vertigo (1958, DVD edition)
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