Hartismere School

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

Home Login

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


From Vertigo to North by Northwest and Psycho, how American director Alfred Hitchcock changed the role of architecture in film.

Explore...

3 Hitchcock Techniques Magnified

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

House of Flying Daggers - mise-en-scene

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

Thriller, The Film Programme - BBC Radio 4

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

Three act structure

Do the Right Thing - Screenshot podcast

Is Vertigo the best or worst movie ever?

House of Flying Daggers - Wuxia Romance

New...

Little Elephant (Jessop)

Vacancies

Teacher of Mathematics

Parents Evening :: Year 7

School Policies

Hartismere Staff Sketchbook Club Exhibition

March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

Summer 2026 Examinations

Discover...

ZEN GCE Film Studies Hitchcock Vertigo Sound Engineering GCSE Clubs And Activities Old Hollywood Cinema Animation Bullying Calendar Working Auteur Productions Assessment staff sketchbook club Term Dates Parent Information Rear Window

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...