Clues (2013) - "The Proper Geography": Hitchcock's Adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds"

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• article: "The Proper Geography": Hitchcock's Adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds"
• author(s): John Bruns
• journal: Clues (01/Apr/2013)
• issue: volume 31, issue 1, page 57
• journal ISSN: 0742-4248
• publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc
• keywords: Film adaptations, Motion picture criticism, Motion pictures, Short stories

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Abstract

Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds" illuminates the technical aspects of his process of adaptation, much-ignored similarities between du Maurier's text and Hitchcock's film, and the anxiogenics of spatial dislocation. The author argues that Hitchcock is preoccupied less with the family romance scripted by Evan Hunter than with the cinematic space of that narrative. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]