Vertigo (BFI Film Classics)- Charles Barr

BFI Film Classics are really neat little books; monographs on a single film giving a new angle on a familiar text. Vertigo is possibly my vote for the best film ever made, so I enjoyed this book despite its shortcomings. Barr spends too much time describing what happens rather than why things happen, but the illustrations are excellent and some of the shot-by-shot analysis is enlightening.