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title: "The Birds (BFI Film Classics)"
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# The Birds (BFI Film Classics)

**Brand:** camille paglia
**Price:** € 70.23
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- **What is this?** The Birds (BFI Film Classics) by camille paglia
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Bird movie
*by E***N on November 2, 2024*

I like the Bird movie classic book . Thankyou

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Classic, hilarious Paglia
*by M***S on April 9, 1999*

One of my favorite authors writing about one of my favorite movies--how could I resist buying this book? I know, I know, Paglia's reputation as a "scholar" is not on the firmest ground, but you have to admit she can write some memorable sentences, and she outdoes herself in this slim but entertaining read. It's basically a scene-by-scene analysis of Hitchcock's film, with some great backstage info and gossip (much of it from a revealing interview with Tippi Hedren) interspersed with Paglia's typical rantings about Dionysian aspects of this or that, phallic pencils and dock pilings, and why the perspective of drag queens is to be treasured over that of the average viewer. I'm not trying to be dismissive--on the contrary, I love Paglia's theories. For me, this book was pure fun to read. However, if you're looking for serious, traditional film criticism, you may want to look elsewhere.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Inspired choice for the birds
*by K***N on July 22, 2000*

Camille Paglia is a controverisal choice to review the Birds which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1962. She is a writer with her own mind and this approach puts her out of step with nearly everyone in academia. Paglia is a always readable and controversial. She has put a generation of feminist's teeth on edge. And on occasion she gets distracted from the task in hand to take a jab at her opponents.Yet this is a superb piece of criticism taking in every apsect of the production of Hitchcock's masterwork. Paglia is very good at the sexual and oedipal politics that pervade Hitchock's work.It shows that film criticism needs not be dense writing aimed solely at obscuring meaning.Her discussion on the ending of the Birds certainly opened my eyes to a flaw of the film. As great as the film is, the ending does not work. The original ending would have provided a great climax to a masterwork, yet it was not chosen. Anyone interested in the Birds or hitchcock should read this book.The book covers a lot of ground and is immensely readable. The best of the series which has shown good marketing sense, but really not a lot of good criticism.

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