The Lady Vanquishes: The Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock
HtichCon '21: What’s It All about, Alfie? • 19m
Hitchcock’s women hit the road, incite action, solve mysteries, and bring the guilty to justice. Their stakes are high, their desires run deep. This talk quells the misbegotten grumblings of misogyny that have dogged critiques of the man who was among the most feminist of 20th century artists—and it finally smashes the superficial myth of the “Hitchcock Blonde.”
HitchCon Advisory Board member. Elisabeth Karlin is an award-winning playwright living in New York. Her plays include "The Night the Ocean Met the Bay" (Next Stage Press); "The Showman and the Spirit" (Winner, 2017 Stanley Drama Award); "Hotbed" (Epic Play Readings, Project Y Theatre; Reading, Jersey City Theatre Center) "Bodega Bay" (The Abingdon Theatre Company; Winner of the 2013 Jerry Kaufman Award in Playwriting; THE BEST MEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2014 and THE BEST WOMEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2014, Smith and Kraus) and many more. A dedicated film buff, Elisabeth has been a frequent contributor to the Alfred Hitchcock Geek Blog, covering a wide range of themes inspired by The Master. An expanded version of her talk at HitchCon21 on "The Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock" appears in the current volume of The Hitchcock Annual.
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