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"Oh, I See.. . . ": The Birds and the Culmination of Hitchcock's Hyper-Romantic Vision
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 44, Number 3, Spring 2005
- pp. 64-80
- 10.1353/cj.2005.0017
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
This essay reads Alfred Hitchcock's thriller The Birds (1963) in the context of literary romanticism. The film reveals a debt to the romantic interest in a natural world that overpowers rational calculation and causality. Additionally, the film critiques educational practices that limit vision by imposing a false order on the sublime chaos of nature.
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