Alfred Hitchcock women treatment analysis

Notes on Hitchcock's treatment of women

The Female Point of View in Hitchcock films 

• Repetition of fear on women's faces
• Majority of films include a man obsessed with a woman
• Points of view are predominantly female
• Something to be controlled or objectified
• Was good at creating storylines and getting beneath characters feelings
• Films included women being objectified and victimised and less important. 
• Includes messages and views that women will be able to relate to such as not mattering
• Women get haunted by the doubt
• Brought into horror from women point of view as it was viewed as women had more to fear than men due to abusive, victimised or exploited
• Liked taking side of underdog and women were often viewed as the underdog in society linking to how they viewed, paid and objectify
• In the film Psycho, the film has complete female point of view. Woman included is portrayed as both weak and strong as she goes against men in some ways to try and build a new life and fight against women's society views, but weak as she falls to women's domestic violence 
• The film called the birds has a complete women's point of view, by having either the main character or other women around her 
• Makes audience join the point of view for the women
• Majority of female actors are on the brink of crisis
• The character Mitch Brenner goes against majority of films by making the romantic prize him, when they are normally women.
• Hitchcock was both progressive and regressive and was able to effectively get the women's point of view and clashed with the normal theme and era of women playing second fiddle to men 
• Hitchcock was not progressive as his own relationship with women is shown throughout his cinema productions
• Includes both thriller and horror films through his idea of women and being able to showcase women's point of view and include complex actors as a way to present them

Interview with Tippy Hendren

• Alfred Hitchcock had an abusive relationship with her
• Other women came up to her and thanked her for speaking up and that she doesn't have to say yes to everything and call him out for it
• She originally loved working with him but the relationship changed nasty as he turned 'evil'
• Signed a 7 year contract and wouldn't let her leave the contract due to his obsession
• Threatened to ruin her career if she didn't sign a new contract with him at the end of her 7year one
• She claimed he harassed her, sometimes sexual