HITCH TAKES! Midge-Curious Mother or Interested Lover? (VERTIGO-1958)

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room for a bonus episode marking the beginning of a new series entitled Hitch Takes!

Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum as she explores the role and readings of Midge in Vertigo. Listen to Rebecca analyse each of Midge scenes, comparing and contrasting her with Madeline and Judy, and examining her relationship with Scottie.

This is the first Hitch Take episode so please get in touch and let me know what you think!

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References

Vertigo (1958)

Vertigo BFI Classics -Charles Barr

Fatal Resemblances: Cross Mapping Hitchcock’s Vertigo with Nabokov’s Lolita, (Barbara Straumann) in Haunted by Vertigo Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now (Edited by Sidney Gottlieb and Donal Martin)

The Women Who Knew Too Much (Tania Modleski)

Vertigo (1958), Alternate Ending - YouTube

‘The Look’, Narrativity and the Female Spectator in Vertigo. (Karen Hollinger)

The Past, The Present And The Perverse: VERTIGO As A Possession Film - Fangoria

HITCHCOCK’S WOMEN: Constructing and Resurrecting the Ideal Woman – A Portrait of Judy Barton in VERTIGO (1958) – PART I (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)

HITCHCOCK’S WOMEN: Constructing and Resurrecting the Ideal Woman – A Portrait of Judy Barton in VERTIGO (1958) – PART II (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)