Clues (2013) - The Second Look, the Second Death: W.G. Sebald's Orphic Adaptation of Hitchcock's Vertigo

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• article: The Second Look, the Second Death: W.G. Sebald's Orphic Adaptation of Hitchcock's Vertigo
• author(s): R.J.A. Kilbourn
• journal: Clues (01/Apr/2013)
• issue: volume 31, issue 1, page 79
• journal ISSN: 0742-4248
• publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc
• keywords: Literary criticism, Motion picture criticism, Motion pictures, Novels

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Abstract

  This essay compares W. G. Sebald's novel Vertigo (1991) and Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo. The book extends key themes and formal strategies in the film, most notably Hitchcock's famous "vertigo shot," which translates in Sebald into a literary trope for the vertiginous abyss of memory in a modern masculine subject. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]