To what extent do Hitchcock's leading ladies appeal to women?
- Using the quote "the chief point I kept in mind when selecting my herione was that she must be fashioned to please women rather then men.....no actress can be a good commercial proposition as a film heroine unless she pleases her own sex" - Alfred Hitchcock
- Women as passive objects vs empathetic towards women
- Spectatorship theory
Books:-
- Laura Mulvey - The Male Gaze
- Ken Mogg - The Alfread Hitchcock Story
- Charles Ramirez Berg - "Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Biography" - The Encyclopedia of Film - 1996
- John Fawell - "Torturing Women and Making Men" - The Midwest Quarterly - 2006
- Tania Modleski - "Hitchcock and Feminist Theory" - The Women Who Knew Too Much.
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