Hartismere School

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

Home Login

How Vertigo foreshadowed ‘catfishing’, AI and #MeToo


Sixty years since it was released, Vertigo resonates powerfully in the age of the internet, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, writes Nicholas Barber.

See also...

Vertigo spirals

Explore...

Behind Carol: the photographers who influenced Todd Haynes’ award-winning film

From Vertigo to Psycho, how Hitchcock changed the role of architecture in film

House of Flying Daggers - the value of women

Vertigo video essay - cinematic influence

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

Realism

Vertigo Film Score Analysis

Under the Skin - audiovisual alienation

The importance of scene transitions

Under the Skin - BFI review

New...

What happens to your examination script?

Teacher of Mathematics (possibility to combine with a head of year post)

I Belong: encouraging girls into computer science programme

Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

Examination Rules, Guidance and Support

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

Hartismere Art & Photography Exhibition 2025

Discover...

Examinations Old Hollywood Vertigo Hitchcock Film Studies GCE ZEN A Level Script The Guardian College Captain Fantastic Strategy Short Film Jobs Statutory Information Silent Film Mathematics Revision Quizlet Photography Screenplay Artists

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...