Cultural Historian Sandra Shevey will introduce Alfred Hitchcock`s film, `The Paradine Case`, at the 2009 Italian Film Festival, on Sunday, 19 April at 2pm and Monday, 20 April at 6:30pm. The festival is being held at London`s Riverside Studios on Crisp Street, Hammersmith.

Sandra Shevey will introduce `The Paradine Case` as part of this year`s Italian Film Festival. The David O. Selznick film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, stars Selznick`s discovery, Alida Valli, who is being featured in this year`s Italian Film Festival.

The niche is appropriate for Sandra Shevey, a cultural historian who has made a study not only of Alfred Hitchcock`s London landscape but also the role of ethnicities in Hollywood films of the golden age.

Sandra`s remit is the suppression of ethnic identities and within this context she identifies Valli as being within those very perimeters. `Her career faltered not so much because of her talent or lack of it, but because she failed to immerse herself sufficiently in the Hollywood concept of Aryanism`, says Sandra.

For Sandra`s Alfred Hitchcock Walk go to www.geocities.com/sandra_shevey/hitchcock.html

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For her lectures on ethnicity and Hollywood suppression go to sandra_shevey@yahoo.com