Cole Smith discusses the space age conceptions of time in the film Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock. Smith writes about the time the film was produced and how current scientific discussions of the time might have influenced Hitchcock’s film, specifically Einsteins theories of relativity. He writes that just as Einstein’s theories disrupted the classic concepts of the scientific community similarly Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo also disrupts classic concepts of time in the opening of his film. He also touches on the idea that the film is an adaptation of a short story written by Ambrose Bierce.
