"And No Birds Sing": Discourses of Environmental Apocalypse in The Birds and Night of the Living Dead

Soles, Carter

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“…Their point is that the literary rhetorics put a pressure to the concerned sectors to think over the environmental degradation and take necessary precautions. Making a comparative study of Rachel Carson' s Silent Spring (1962) and Hitchcock's The Birds, Soles (2014) remarks that Carson and Hitchcock both take bird deaths as a symptom of ecological apocalypse. Carson's title, "Silent Spring", evokes the disturbing lack of bird song in areas devastated by DDT spraying (p.528).…”

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Fellow Creatures in War with Humans: Status Quo Struggle in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds

Dahal

2022

KMC J.

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This article examines the intricate matrix of human and non-human relations to explore the symbolic essence of war of birds with the humanity in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie ‘The Birds’. This movie contains a plot in which nature strikes back to humanity. The everyday life is terrorized by the flocks of birds that attack people forcing them to think of their hostile relationship with other creatures. The study concentrates on exploring the reasons of havoc caused by the mute creatures, specially the birds that behave strangely. It analyses the film from an ecocritical insight envisioned by the theorists Arne Naess, Vandana Shiva, and Lawrence Buell. As it is a thematic interpretation of the movie, it reviews the scholarly comments of different critics and sets to explore the avian status quo struggle departing from the criticisms. Its finding suggests that anthropocentric hubris is the reason behind the dystopic state of the planet and the animals and birds are ultimately struggling for their own position on earth. It challenges the human claim that they are the most powerful creatures of this universe to keep everything under their control.

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Section: The Birds: An Apocalyptic Rhetoricmentioning

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Fellow Creatures in War with Humans: Status Quo Struggle in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds

Dahal

2022

KMC J.

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“…For some recent examples, see Gaard et al . (2013), McSweeney (2013), Murphy (2018), Soles (2014) and Wright (2015).…”

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‘Shrieking soldiers … wiping clean the earth’: hearing apocalyptic environmentalism in the music of Botanist

Lucas¹

2019

Pop. Mus.

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This article presents a case study of ecocritical black metal, delving into the apocalypticism of the California-based black metal band Botanist, who conjures a world in which plants have violently destroyed human civilisation. It first contextualises Botanist amidst the broader current of environmentalism in extreme metal as well as within wider cultural explorations of plants as subjective beings capable of violence. The article then examines how Botanist taps into the logic of apocalyptic environmentalism, as the music presents the essential narrative of apocalyptic bioterrorism: humanity, with wanton hubris, has sown the seeds of its own destruction, and earned whatever horrors befall it on the way to elimination. With its bleak outlook and strident sound world, Botanist's music threatens to destabilise listeners’ assumptions about their place in the world and offers an example of what apocalyptic ecological urgency in music could sound like.

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Canary in a Coal Mine: From Mine Safety Technique to Animal Metaphor

Leech

2023

Comparative American Studies An International Journal

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"And No Birds Sing": Discourses of Environmental Apocalypse in The Birds and Night of the Living Dead

Cited by 6 publications

References 1 publication

Fellow Creatures in War with Humans: Status Quo Struggle in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds

Fellow Creatures in War with Humans: Status Quo Struggle in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds

‘Shrieking soldiers … wiping clean the earth’: hearing apocalyptic environmentalism in the music of Botanist

Canary in a Coal Mine: From Mine Safety Technique to Animal Metaphor

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