Main content
‘Hitchcock makes living saints out of these women’
Feminist author Camille Paglia discusses film director Alfred Hitchcock’s obsession with his female leads. Speaking to Woman’s Hour presenter Jenni Murray, Paglia explores how and why Hitchcock sought to control the women who starred in his films, especially the beautiful former-model Tippi Hedren. Hedren played the lead in his 1963 film The Birds and became the object of Hitchock’s desire but refused to give in to his advances.
Duration:
Featured in...
Books and Authors
Books and authors - clips and interviews of authors on Radio 4
Woman's Hour - Arts and Entertainment—Woman's Hour
Books, Film, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts.
More clips from Camille Paglia on women in Hitchcock, Parveen Ahmed on Eid, and being blind on a bike.
-
Is there such a thing as fun for all the family?
Duration: 03:13
More clips from Woman's Hour
-
Gillian Anderson: 'There's so much shame about sex'
Duration: 01:34
-
24-year-old wins international award with ‘Athena’ invention
Duration: 01:19