Table of Contents

Foreword to the 2020 edition
'The Birds'
Appendix: Melanie Daniels' Social Calendar
Notes
Credits
Bibliography

Promotional Information

A study of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 iconic horror movie The Birds in the BFI Film Classics series.

About the Author

Camille Paglia is University Professor of Humanities & Media Studies at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA. She is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990).

Reviews

The slim book is Paglia at her most discerning, precise, and enjoyable.
*Electric Ghost*

Characteristically provocative and engrossing.
*The Best American Poetry blog*

Camille Pagilia remains one of the most intellectual and challenging voices in academia and popular culture ... [S]he elevates The Birds up to the position it often gets denied: As a mid-career highlight of one of the world's greatest directors and a piece worthy of critical and intellectual examination.
*The Comic Crush*