Vertigo

DIVThe author documents the crucial role of screenwriters Alec Coppell and Samuel Taylor and, by a combination of textual and contextual analysis, explores the reasons whyIVertigo/Ihas come to exert such a continuing fascination both on audiences and on a wide range of critics and theorists./DIVDIVCharles Barr is Professor of Film at the University of East Anglia. He is the author ofIEaling Studios/I(rev. edn, 1999) andIEnglish Hitchcock/I(1999). He was researcher and co-writer of Stephen Frears's filmITypically British: A Personal History of British Cinema/I(1995)./DIVDIVThe author documents the crucial role of screenwriters Alec Coppell and Samuel Taylor and, by a combination of textual and contextual analysis, explores the reasons whyIVertigo/Ihas come to exert such a continuing fascination both on audiences and on a wide range of critics and theorists./DIV