The BirdsCamille 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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