The Birds | A Comparison of Du Maurier's Story with Hitchcock's Film Version
In the following essay, Wendy Perkins compares du Maurier's short story ‘‘The Birds’’ with Alfred Hitchcock's film version.
In 1963, Universal Pictures released Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds to public and critical acclaim. Evan Hunter's screenplay loosely adapted Daphne du Maurier's short story, transplanting the location from the Cornish coast of England to the seaside town of Bodega Bay and changing a major thematic direction. In du Maurier's tale, the bird attacks and the characters' responses to them emerge as a political statement on the paranoid atmosphere that existed in Europe and America during the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s....
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