Nick Kouhi’s Reviews > The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory > Status Update

A great highlight from the first essay is in this quote justifying Modleski analyzing classic narrative cinema (ie a symptom of a "patriarchal system":

"An analysis of patriarchy's weak points enables us to avoid the paralyzing nihilism of a position which accords such unassailable strength to an oppressive system and helps us more accurately to assess our own strengths relative to it."