1. Ovid’s “Pygmalion” & Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo
Prof. Ruth M. McAdams
21 November 2016

2. Overview of Lecture 1. Adaptation 2. Ovid’s “Pygmalion”
3. Vertigo as Pygmalion Story
4. Cinematic and Meta-Cinematic Elements
5. Carlotta Valdes

3. Part 1. Adaptation Pygmalion and Galatea By Jean-Léon Gérôme 1890
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

4. Antigone Adapted

5. Part 1. Adaptation Pygmalion and Galatea By Jean-Léon Gérôme 1890
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

6. Movie, 1964

8. Part 2. Ovid’s “Pygmalion”
Pygmalion and Galatea
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
1890
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York City

9. “Pygmalion had seen these women living in shame
And, offended by the faults that nature had lavished
On the female psyche, lived as a bachelor
Without any bedmate.” (lines )

10. It had the face of a real girl, a girl you would think
Who wanted to be aroused, if modesty permitted
(lines )

11. Part 2. Ovid’s “Pygmalion”
Pygmalion and Galatea
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
1890
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York City

12. Part 3. Vertigo as Pygmalion Story

13. Judy and John “Scottie” Ferguson, in the department store

14. Judy playing Madeleine

15. The Real Madeleine Elster

16. Judy playing “Madeleine”

17. Midge

18. From Judy to Madeleine (the 2nd time)

19. Judy as herself

20. Part 5. Cinematic and Meta-Cinematic Elements
Kim Novak publicity photo

22. Part 5. Cinematic and Meta-Cinematic Elements

23. The Vertigo Shot
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24. Part 5. Carlotta Valdes