HITCHCOCK AND FEMINISM

Interesting book came up when looking around on academic sources of Hitchcock and feminism

Notes:

• Laura Mulvey's essay seems like a pretty critical report on Hitchcock, would definitely be worth a read. I don't know fully what I want the content to be yet, but I want it to be a more wholesome image of Hitchcock.
• The Women Who Knews Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory by Modleski
•  Often tormented blond heroines
• Tania Modleski is Professor of Film and Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Loving With A Vengeance and Feminism Without Women, both available from Routledge.
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The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory by Tania Modelski (1988)

I'm going to try and get hold of this at some point and hopefully find some interesting points from Modelski. A preview is available online at http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ud-8TEqdBaIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

"It is... somehwat surprising to reflect on the extent to which feminists have found themselves compelled, intrigued, infuriated and inspired by Hitchcock's works" - [Modelski, 1988]

"Laura Mulvey's essay "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema," which may be considered the founding document of psychoanalytic feminist film theory, focuses on Hitchcock's films in order to show how women in classic Hollywood cinema are inevitably made into passive objects of male voyeuristic and sadistic impulses; how they exist simply to fulfill the desires and express the anxieties of the men in the audience." - [Modelski, 1988]

"In film studies, Hitchcock is often viewed as the archetypal misogynist, who invites his audience to indulge in their most sadistic fantasies against the female." - [Modelski, 1988]