A Marxist critique of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo examines how the film reflects the social and economic conditions of its production and the ideologies of its creators. It views the film as both a commercial product created by the studio system to make profit, and as a cultural artifact that reinforces aspects of class, gender, and ethnic hierarchies through its representations and treatment of characters. Applying Marxist analysis provides an alternative interpretation of the film's themes of obsession and downfall by linking them to issues of class, gender, and ethnicity in the socio-historical context in which the film was made.