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A talk on Hitchcock’s Heroines
I recently delivered a talk based on my book Hitchcock’s Heroines to one of the largest lecture societies in the UK, the Eastbourne Ashridge Circle. At the city’s impressive Congress Theatre, I took the audience of 1,000 guests on a journey from the twenties to the seventies, exploring the women, and their style, in Alfred…
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Hitchcock’s British Heroines
We all know about the glacial elegance of Hitchcock blondes like Grace Kelly, Tippi Hedren and Kim Novak, but the heroines from Hitchcock’s early British films are much less well known. So let’s explore some of these actresses, and why they are the starting point when studying the women in Hitchcock films and his impeccable…
