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Contexts
Context of Production
Films are shaped by the contexts in which they are produced. They can therefore be understood in more depth by placing them within two important contextual frames. The first involves considering the broader contexts of a film at the time when it was produced – its social, cultural and political contexts, either current or historical. The second involves a consideration of a film’s institutional context, including the important contextual factors affecting production such as finance and available technology.
The film Vertigo has long been hailed as a modern Hollywood classic, a film that not only in so many ways defines the genre of psychological thriller but is now recognised as the film that epitomises all of the trademark stylistics of the body of work of its director, Alfred Hitchcock. The critic roger Egbert states that it is simply ‘one of the two or three best films Hitchcock ever made, is the most confessional, dealing directly with the themes that controlled his art.’
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