Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and the hermeneutic spiral
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Hermeneutic Spiral -- 3 Vertigo -- What, Then, Are the Basic Facts? -- Iconographic Analyses Limited to the Work Itself -- Formal Analyses Limited to the Work Itself -- Iconographic Analyses Expanding Beyond the Work Itself -- Documentable Contexts Outside the Work: Hitchcock Himself -- Documentable Contexts Outside the Work: Hitchcock's Collaborators -- "Friendly" Psychoanalytic Readings -- "Friendly" Non-Psychoanalytical Readings -- "Unfriendly" or "Resisting" Readings -- Comparative Models: Inexhaustibility by Contrast -- Positions on the Hermeneutic Spiral -- 4 Forcing Insight with Sight and the Availability Heuristic -- The Title Sequence -- 5 Vertigo, Duchamp's Anémic Cinéma and a Žižekian Brassiere -- 6 Vertigo, Man Ray's L'Etoile de mer, and Flowers -- 7 Vertigo, Kubrick's The Shining, Spellbound and Liberty -- 8 Vertigo, Lynch's Twin Peaks and the Record Player -- 9 Vertigo, Etrog's Spiral, The Shining and Traumatic Memory -- 10 Vertigo, The Shining, Spatial Mental Models and the Uncanny -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index