Film History (2007) - Dualling for Judy: The Concept of the Double in the Films of Kim Novak
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- article: Dualling for Judy: The Concept of the Double in the Films of Kim Novak
- author(s): Vincent L. Barnett
- journal: Film History (01/Jan/2007)
- issue: volume 19, issue 1, pages 86-101
- DOI: 10.2979/FIL.2007.19.1.86
- journal ISSN: 0892-2160
- publisher: Indiana University Press
- keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Bannon, Chicago, Illinois, Competition, Doris Day, Ernie's Restaurant, San Francisco, California, François Truffaut, Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Marnie (1964), Monaco, France, Motion pictures, New York City, New York, Norman Bates, Personality disorders, Pierre Boileau, Popular culture, Psycho (1960), Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Rear Window (1954), Robin Wood, Roger Moore, San Francisco, California, Thomas Narcejac, Tippi Hedren, To Catch a Thief (1955), Vera Miles, Vertigo (1958), Walter Poznar
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Abstract
The concept of 'character doubling,' which has deep literary roots, was developed with special force in the cinema. Carl Jung's theory of psychological types, first published in English in 1923, suggests an approach to understanding the use of stereotyped characters, especially doubles, so familiar in American cinema. The on- and off-screen career of actress Kim Novak is used as an illustration of this fascination with disjointed personalities, particularly in such films as Vertigo, Bell, Book and Candle, The Legend of Lylah Clare and Kiss Me, Stupid.