Tania modleski biography

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Tania Modleski (born ) is an American feminist scholar and cultural critic, Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Modleski on criticism of popular feminine narratives

She is the author of "The Terror of Pleasure" (), Loving with a Vengeance () and The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory ().

Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance, "to begin a feminist analysis of women's reading", considered three popular fictional genres: the Harlequin romance, the Gothic novel and the daytime US soap opera.

Modleski argued that the formulaic nature of these genres gave readers the freedom to construct their own response, at a distance from the text. Her next book, The Women Who Knew Too Much, examined seven Hitchcock films: Blackmail, Murder, Rebecca, Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo and Frenzy.

Modelski now challenged the terms of taking 'distance' from a text, arguing that "th