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Drawing on Daphne du Maurier's short story and contemporary newspaper reports of bird attacks in California, The Birds (1963) featured Tippi Hedren in her first starring role. Camille Paglia's compelling study considers the film's aesthetic, technical and mythical qualities, and analyzes its depiction of gender and family relations. A film about anxiety, sexual power and the violence of nature, it is quintessential Hitchcock.Camille Paglia's f...

Much has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights of this major American thinker continue to be ahead of the curve-not only capturing the tone of the moment but also often anticipating it. Opening with a blazing manifesto of an introduction in which Paglia outlines the bedrock beliefs that inform her writing-freedom of speech, the necessity of fearless inquiry...

The definitive collection of essays from intellectual provocateur and gender equality advocate Camille Paglia, alternately celebrating and challenging the achievements of contemporary feminism in the freewheeling and polemical style Paglia has become well known for. One of "Huffington Post"'s 27 Nonfiction Books by Women that Everyone Should Read This Year.

The fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched Paglia's exceptional career as one of today's most important public intellectuals--an exploration of the connections between art and pagan ritual from ancient Egypt through the 19th century.tury.

The fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched Paglia's exceptional career as one of today's most important public intellectuals--an exploration of the connections between art and pagan ritual from ancient Egypt through the 19th century.tury.

Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism's most outspoken, independent, and searingly intelligent voices. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume. Whether she's calling for equal opportunity for American women (years before the founding of the National Organization for Women), championing a more discerning standard ...

Modern life is a sea of images. With so much visual data bombarding us-from personal devices to mass media-our brains must rapidly adapt to make sense of it all. Here to guide us is America's premier intellectual provocateur, Camille Paglia. In these pages, Paglia returns to the subject that made her famous, situating our current visual environment within the epic scope of all of art history. With trademark audacity, Paglia tours through more...

WIth full-color illustrations throughout From the best-selling author of Sexual Personae and Break, Blow, Burn and one of our most acclaimed cultural critics, here is an enthralling journey through Western art's defining moments, from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucas's volcano planet duel in Revenge of the Sith. America's premier intellectual provocateur returns to the subject that brought her fame, the great them...

With her knowledge of both classic and contemporary cultures, Paglia sheds illuminating light on the raw power of a wailing pop lyric as easily as she does on the cryptic wit of a line of Emily Dickinson. High school & older.

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A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.

Here is the fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched Camille Paglia's exceptional career as one of our most important public intellectuals. Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Donatello's David a bit of pedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists-as well as conservatives-fatally misread human nature? Th...

Camille Paglia draws together in this text the aesthetic, technical and mythical qualities of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963), and analyzes its depiction of gender and family relations. A film about anxiety, sexual power and the violence of nature, it is quintessential Hitchcock.

En Los pájaros (The Birds), una de las películas más aclamadas de Alfred Hitchcock, el genial director nos acerca a uno de los más grandes temores del inconsciente colectivo y nos ofrece un retrato macabro y terrorífico sobre el poder del sexo y la violencia de la naturaleza. En este original y elegante estudio, Camille Paglia desvela algunos de los temas fundamentales que articulan la obra del inolvidable cineasta y propone una mirada diferen...

From the fiery intellectual provocateur- and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality-a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men. Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism's most outspoken, independent, and searingly intelligent voices. Now, for the first time, he...

The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, Lorena Bobbitt to Bill and Hillary. These essays have never appeared in book form, and many will be appearing in print for the first time.