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Jimmy Stewart

The scene in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, where the camera pulls back while simultaneously zooming in to create a dizzying effect from the point of view of the acrophobic, seems to represent well, at least literally, what really happens in moments of acrophobic vertigo. You really do feel the abyss is sucking you in, and as shallow [...]

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