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The Birds
Series: BFI Film Classics
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Ideal for readers interested in film studies, feminist critique, and Hitchcock enthusiasts keen on nuanced cultural analysis.
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Drawing on Daphne du Maurier's short story and contemporary newspaper reports of bird attacks in California, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) featured Tippi Hedren in her first starring role.
Camille Paglia's compelling study considers the film's aesthetic, technical, and mythical qualities, and analyses its depiction of gender and family relations. A film about anxiety, sexual power, and the violence of nature, it is quintessential Hitchcock.
Camille Paglia's foreword to this new edition reflects upon the relationship between Hitchcock and his leading lady Hedren in the light of recent debates about male power, female agency, and the #MeToo movement.
Series: BFI Film Classics
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The slim book is Paglia at her most discerning, precise, and enjoyable. Electric Ghost praises its insightfulness, while The Best American Poetry blog finds it characteristically provocative and engrossing.
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ISBN: 9781838719401
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 May 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Edition: 2nd edition
Illustration: 29 colour illus19 b/w illus
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 134.0mm
Height: 188.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 120
About the Author
Camille Paglia is University Professor of Humanities & Media Studies at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA. She is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990).
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