English 680V: Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age (Purdue) - Vertigo http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp07/blakesley7/taxonomy/term/59/all en The missing Visual http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp07/blakesley7/node/350 <p>Despite the ...interesting...visual aspects of <em>Vertigo</em> 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.<br /> 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.</p> <p><a href="http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp07/blakesley7/node/350">read more</a></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp07/blakesley7/node/350#comment Vertigo Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:57:43 -0400 Amylea 350 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp07/blakesley7