American Imago (1990) - A Fall from Grace: The Fragmentation of Masculine Subjectivity and the Impossibility of Femininity in Hitchcock's "Vertigo"

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• article: A Fall from Grace: The Fragmentation of Masculine Subjectivity and the Impossibility of Femininity in Hitchcock's "Vertigo"
• author(s): Garry M. Leonard
• journal: American Imago (1990)
• issue: volume 47, issue 3, page 271
• journal ISSN: 0065-860X
• publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Sloan's Alfred Hitchcock: A Filmography and Bibliography (1995) — page 505, #864
• Sloan's Alfred Hitchcock: A Filmography and Bibliography: page 505, #864
• keywords: Criticism & critics, Men, Motion pictures, Women

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Abstract

Using Lacanian theory and a recent work by Tania Modleski on female subjectivity, Alfred Hitchcock's film "Vertigo" is examined from the "viewpoint of a man in an emotional crisis" and in relation to women and the "feminine."