Since its box office failure in 1958, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has grown in stature. It is almost always rated as one of the ten greatest films of all time (and often number one or two). What’s amazing (besides the film itself) is the number of “Vertigo” films that have followed in its wake, not just in Hollywood but all around the world (Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave (2022, Korea); David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001, America); Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman (2008, Argentina); Brian DePalma’s Obsession (1976, America); Lou Ye’s Suzhou River (2000, China); Ildiko Enyedi’s My 20th Century (1989, Hungary), not to mention all the partially-inspired “Vertigo” films, Tarkowsky’s Solaris, Bergman’s Persona, Kurosawa’s Cure, Marker’s Sans Soleil, Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In, etc. We’ll examine Vertigo as the founding text of a way of seeing the world, the ur-myth of a sudden and proliferating collective nightmare.LITPA 200 courses introduce students to the study of literature or the performing arts, emphasizing analysis of both particular works and of the range of genres, periods and traditions. Frequent reading and writing assignments will be made.

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