Female Representation and Violence in Two of Hitchcock’s British Films
HitchCon '22: Hitchcock in a Time of Crisis
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23m
Made in Britain but released nearly 50 years apart, this talk focuses on how The Lodger (1927) and Frenzy (1972) rely on similar themes of violence against women, signifying a director finding his feet in a genre he loves and later signing off at the end of his career.
Evangeline Spachis is an M.A. scholar in Film Curation. As a freelance film programmer at Leeds International Film Festival, she specialises in programmes that promote queer readings and queer representation in horror. She has had a lifelong love of Hitchcock, referencing the lauded Hitchcock Geek in her undergraduate dissertation. She hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
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