Purchasing Fear: Analyzing Cold War Ideologies in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds

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dc.contributor.advisorAnderson, Mark
dc.contributor.advisorBlake, Raymond
dc.contributor.authorAntonishyn, Bailey Dawn
dc.contributor.committeememberCharrier, Philip
dc.contributor.externalexaminerStojanova, Christina
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-22T19:01:16Z
dc.date.available2015-12-22T19:01:16Z
dc.date.issued2015-07
dc.descriptionA Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History, University of Regina. iv, 52 p.en_US
dc.description.abstractDuring the Cold War Americans were inundated with talk of atomic weapons, attacks, communist spies, and alleged “contamination.” It is a commonplace that films offered an escape from this repetitive flood of fear and indoctrination. However, upon examination, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) appears to have intensified Cold War fears and anxieties, rather than pacifying them. This thesis focuses on depictions of Cold War imagery represented in The Birds. The film’s imagery will be dissected and examined through semiotic analysis, in an attempt to expose the film’s Cold War imagery that threatened Americans and American ideals. While Hitchcock sought favorable reviews and a generous paycheck, his motion picture, like other directors’ films of the period, aided and abetted Cold War anxiety and fear outside of the cinema, thereby endorsing Cold War trepidation as a norm amongst Americans in the 1960s. This thesis will review the Cold War period leading up to the film’s debut, it will examine the film’s scholarly literature and reviews, and it will analyze the Cold War imagery found in The Birds and its potential meaning. The aim of this thesis is to explore the pervasive theme of Cold War fear and anxiety in The Birds and to suggest that Cold War imagery possibly intensified audiences’ previously established Cold War fears.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusStudenten
dc.description.peerreviewyesen
dc.identifier.tcnumberTC-SRU-6524
dc.identifier.thesisurlhttp://ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/6524/Antonishyn_Bailey_200285371_MA_HIST_Fall2015.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/6524
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Reginaen_US
dc.titlePurchasing Fear: Analyzing Cold War Ideologies in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birdsen_US
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Reginaen
thesis.degree.levelMaster'sen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
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