Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and the Pygmalion Myth Reconsidered
Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo (1958) has attracted the interest of classical reception scholars because of its adaptation of Ovid’s Pygmalion myth. Scottie, the film’s main character, has been interpreted as a re-enactment of Pygmalion, a character in the Metamorphoses who sculpted his ideal woman...
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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Coimbra University Press
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Boletim de Estudos Clássicos |
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| Online Access: | https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/bec/article/view/8046 |