Haunted By Vertigo By Sidney Gottlieb

When Richard Schickel stated unequivocally in 1972 that “We’re living in a Hitchcock world, all right”, he did so without even mentioning the film that now stands at the top of the Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll: Vertigo. That omission needs to be redressed when we think about the Hitchcock world we live in now. ‘Haunted by Vertigo’ gathers essays that offer a variety of approaches to what many consider to be Hitchcock’s signature film.