We are wrapping up Furry February by celebrating a fowl and feathery flock in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film, The Birds. While we all came for some terrorizing birds, imagine how happy we were to discover a beautiful queer romance, but these girlfriends aren't able to love because of a swarm of gull-fiends! We also talk about men poured into sweaters, children continuing to deserve all the harms in the world, and the misogyny of Hollywood in the 1960s.
This podcast is a proud part of the Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective.
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Music credit to Alex Besss (@AlexBesss_Music on YouTube) "Dance with Fate" (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Read more:
Article in The Guardian (ugh) from 2016 - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/31/tippi-hedren-alfred-hitchcock-sexually-assaulted-me
Paglia, Camile. The Birds (BFI Film Classics). https://www.scribd.com/doc/217627481/Camille-Paglia-The-Birds-BFI-Film-Classics
Grenier, Richard (1983). And Suddenly Evil Erupts. Archive link: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/030683hitch-spoto-book.html
Moral, Tony Lee (2013). The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro, Scared & Prepared
00:11:28 Introduction to The Birds
00:16:05 Themes
00:30:25 Is it Horror?
00:35:28 Is it Queer?
00:40:06 Beat-by-Beat Discussion
1:34:35 Wrap-Up and Reevaluation
