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The Birds (BFI Film Classics) by Camille Paglia is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Birds (BFI Film Classics) about?
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 familial relations. Amazon.com Review BFI Film Classics are a treasure, featuring some of the most imaginative recent writing on movies and the film industry. In each little book of the series, an important essayist explores the planning, production, and meaning of a single classic film. We've already been treated to Laura Mulvey on Citizen Kane , David Thomson on The Big Sleep , and Salman Rushdie on The Wizard of Oz . Camille Paglia on The Birds seems like the next, natural step! Paglia brings her characteristic blend of autobiography, psychoanalysis, kinky vampirism, 1960s radicalism, and contempt for scholarly jargon to her discussion of The Birds , Hitchcock's vision of Mother Nature's vengeance on the humans who have desecrated her. Paglia says she has loved the movie since it first flew into theaters in 1963: "Overwhelmed by the film when I saw it as an impressionable teenager, I view it as a perverse ode to women's sexual glamour, which Hitchcock shows in all its seductive phases, from brittle ar
Who reads The Birds (BFI Film Classics)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Camille Paglia
- Publisher
- British Film Institute; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780851706511
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sports, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (251 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
