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Vertigo is not the last word in misogyny, but a feminist deconstruction of it


While some critics see the film, released 60 years ago, as proof of Hitchcock’s sexist creepiness, a closer look reveals strong women and weak men were often at the heart of his work

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Pan's Labyrinth

Zhang Yimou - Visionary of China's past

Under the Skin - audiovisual alienation

Vertigo Film Score Analysis

Vertigo spirals

Film Education resource: House of Flying Daggers

DP/30 @ Sundance '13: Stories We Tell, storyteller Sarah Polley

The end of the auteur?

World of Wong Kar Wei - go 7 minutes and 13 seconds in!

German Expressionism: Crash Course Film History #7

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January 2026 Examinations

December Mock Examinations

WAR HORSE, Norwich Theatre Royal, Thursday 6th November 2025 Places available

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