1. Freud and Film
... rest in Vertigo's careful manipulation of cognitive dissonance as we compare Madeleine with all her variations: Judy from Kansas; Midge; Midge in her self portrait of Carlotta; Carlotta in her painting and Carlotta in Scottie's dream. Scottie, an established symbol of the normal, all-American male, represents the normal man who cracks under the pressure of his placement within an extraordinary ... of cooler, more monotonous speech all enhance the closed-off mise-en-scene that frames Scottie's world. There are, of course, other forms of imagery within Vertigo than color. The painting for...
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