Vertigo PG

Presented by Shannon Dea
Theme: The Construction of ‘Woman'

In her 1949 landmark book, The Second Sex, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir made the provocative suggestion that woman is not born, but made. Nine years later, in his psychological thriller Vertigo, Hitchcock gave this idea a more literal expression than Beauvoir ever intended. We’ll use Beauvoir’s ideas as a new lens to revisit this classic film. Was Hitchcock a feminist?