English 680V: Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age (Purdue)

Despite the ...interesting...visual aspects of Vertigo even more interesting to me are the scenes into which we are denied visual entry. Madeline narrates her dream for us--we see clips of the dream, but never the "dream sequence" in entirety. When we see the Spanish mission, then, it has an uncany familiarity.
We are also denied seeing Scotty wake up in SF after the fall--instead the court official tells us about it. And in the final scene, Scotty narrates what "really" happened while we get the exciting visuals of the empty church bell tower.