Why the old-school horror of The Birds speaks to 21st-century anxieties

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Fears of technological overreach, environmental decline, and the violent rise of the irrational: our 21st century anxieties were anticipated in an unlikely 20th century horror metaphor. “The Birds” – a haunting 1953 short story by Daphne duMaurier, and the truly bizarre 1963 Alfred Hitchcock movie that it inspired.

'There's something open enough that it can meet the moment of crisis that you're in,' says academic Lynn KozakThe 1963 American horror-thriller film by Alfred Hitchcock is loosely based on the 1952 short story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The movie focuses on unexplained, violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California.

"Daphne du Maurier obviously was writing within her time. It's infused with all this imagery of war, ideas of siege," said Wynne.is a Freudian three-ring circus." British film director Alfred Hitchcock during the shooting of his movie The Birds in 1963. Hitchcock’s on- and off-screen treatment of star Tippi Hedren has become a source of controversy after the publication of Hedren’s 2016 memoir.

 

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