Hitchcocks Motifs: An in depth reading of Vertigo.

Alfred Hitchcock was an auteur who relied upon a set of codes and conventions which made his films some of the most memorable ever made. He was primarily concerned with authorship in his films and tended to use dark fears and imaginative settings to attract the audience. For example this type of setting was used in the film 'Psycho'. The majority of the films that Hitchcock made were very similar and this is because he …

…is similar to the effect of Rear Window and the estate that is shown, which is reminiscent to that of a theatre backdrop. Hitchcock was at the height of his skill when he directed Vertigo in 1957. The blend of mystery, romance, obsession, voyeurism and murder make the film typical of the Hitchcockian style. Every image, every musical note and every aspect of the film was at the closest level of perfection that he could attain.