Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Vertigo: An Introduction


I've just published a guide to Hitchcock's Vertigo; one of his best films. Here's the Introduction: Vertigo (1958), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, has made a long critical journey in the sixty years since it was first released. At the time critical reaction was cool and the box office for a Hitchcock movie was weak. However by…

See also...

Is Vertigo the best or worst movie ever?

Explore...

Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag

House of Flying Daggers - sound

Under the Skin explained

Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

House of Flying Daggers – Ending Notes

Nick Broomfield interview

Realism

Do the Right Thing - Screenshot podcast

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

Under the Skin - BFI review

New...

A levels: pre-reading and research materials

Summer 2026 Examinations

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

Hartismere Family Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

Hartismere Family :: Policy Documents

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Print Exhibition at Wingfield Barns

Discover...

Hitchcock Vertigo GCE Examinations Film Studies ZEN Carol SOTD Yimou American Cinema Art At Hartismere Student Information Quizlet Clubs And Activities Cinema Films Spike Lee Silent Film Editing Art Exhibition Year 12 YouTube

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...