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Forcing Insight with Sight and the Availability Heuristic

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“Forcing Insight with Sight and the Availability Heuristic” provides an explanation of how and why to force the production of new meanings from old material, followed by a consideration of two psychological phenomena, the availability heuristic and confirmation bias. The latter begins to explain differences of critical opinion in the light of differing individual experiences, which, though they occur outside Vertigo, are as constitutive of its “meaning” as the elements of the film themselves.

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Belton, R.J. (2017). Forcing Insight with Sight and the Availability Heuristic. In: Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55188-3_4

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