Camille Paglia: The "Birds"

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Camille Paglia draws together in this text the aesthetic, technical and mythical qualities of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963), and analyzes its depiction of gender and family relations. A film about anxiety, sexual power and the violence of nature, it is quintessential Hitchcock.

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Author: Camille Paglia
Number of Pages: 96 pages
Published Date: 26 Aug 1998
Publisher: British Film Institute
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780851706511
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