Novak vs Hitchcock vs Hollywood vs Novak

Kim Novak Interview About "Vertigo" : The New Yorker

FROM THE ARTICLE:

Among the wonders of “Vertigo” is its dramatization of Hitchcock’s own artistry—on the one hand, James Stewart’s traumatized officer is snared in a plot laid as carefully as one of Hitchcock’s own, and, on the other, having lost Madeleine, the incarnation of his erotic ideal (Novak as dolled up by the mastermind), he seeks to bring her back to life through the studio-style makeover of Judy, an “apt pupil” (of course, also Novak) who reminds him of her. Novak tells Câmara that she was well aware of the movie’s cinematic allegories: “It was the opportunity to express what was going on between me and Hollywood.”