Hello everyone, this is Dwayne Monroe, one of the hosts, alongside RC Charles Roberts and Dennis Claxton, of the Film Conversations podcast. In today’s episode, we are very happy to welcome Mary Wild to the show to talk about Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece, Vertigo. On her Twitter page (I refuse to call that platform, X) Mary describes herself as a ​​Freudian cinephile and feminine jouissance maximalist, which is both a marvelous phrase and fantastic declaration. Mary is the creator of the Projections lecture series at the Freud Museum, London, co-host of the Projections Podcast, contributor to Evolution pod and the host of her own podcast on Freud, film and related topics. I’m happy to say I was a guest on Mary’s podcast a few months ago to talk about how AI is treated as a topic in film.

A note about this episode… We originally recorded an episode with Mary on August 6. Unfortunately, there was a technical problem that caused the loss of the entire recording. Very kindly, Mary agreed to come on again to re-record. We’re very glad and grateful that she did not only because it gives us a chance to talk with Mary about Vertigo but also, because it gives us a chance to more fully explore her Freudian approach to the film.

There will be links to all the references in the show notes. This was a great conversation which we looked forward to for some time; Vertigo is a brilliant film that rewards rewatching and Mary is a brilliant person to walk us through it. I hope you enjoy.

Links

Mary Wild Podcast

https://www.patreon.com/marywild

Freud Museum London

https://www.freud.org.uk

Projection Series at the Freud Museum

https://www.freud.org.uk/tag/projections/

Projections Podcast

https://open.spotify.com/show/2O5n4yhnRGpreyTS7tDfLm

Evolution of Horror Podcast

https://www.evolutionofhorror.com