{"product_id":"being-and-the-birds-or-everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-heidegger-but-were-afraid-to-ask-hitchcock-hardcover","title":"Being and The Birds: Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Heidegger (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDerek Hawthorne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilosopher and film critic Derek Hawthorne draws on the thought of Martin Heidegger to illuminate Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic \u003cem\u003eThe Birds, \u003c\/em\u003eabout\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ea series of savage and inexplicable bird attacks on Bodega Bay, a sleepy California fishing village. Hawthorne argues that \u003cem\u003eThe Birds\u003c\/em\u003e depicts a Heideggerian \"event\" (\u003cem\u003eEreignis\u003c\/em\u003e): a sudden and fundamental transformation of the meaning of everything. Modern men believe we are masters of our own destiny. Heidegger calls this \"humanism\" and rejects it completely. \u003cem\u003eThe Birds\u003c\/em\u003e is an anti-humanist film. In the space of one weekend, all pretensions to the understanding and mastery of nature are shattered, and man is reduced to helplessness in the face of unfathomable mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Derek Hawthorne's \u003cem\u003eBeing and The Birds\u003c\/em\u003e is the most penetrating and insightful commentary on \u003cem\u003eThe Birds\u003c\/em\u003e ever written, drawing on the film, the original story by Daphne Du Maurier, the film's production history, and even its surprising connection to Edvard Munch's \u003cem\u003eThe Scream\u003c\/em\u003e. Hawthorne also manages to explain Heidegger's key ideas in remarkably accessible prose. Thus \u003cem\u003eBeing and the Birds\u003c\/em\u003e serves as an ideal brief introduction to the most important philosopher of the last century.\"-Trevor Lynch, author of \u003cem\u003eTrevor Lynch's Classics of Right-Wing Cinema \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eBeing and The Birds\u003c\/em\u003e: Heidegger and Hitchcock, analyzed by a profound and passionate scholar of movies and metaphysics. If you are into both, you will be kept on the edge of your seat while reading this masterly, surprising essay. It is a first-rate intellectual \u003cem\u003eEreignis\u003c\/em\u003e and surpasses Camille Paglia's British Film Institute study as the best thing ever written on\u003cem\u003e The Birds\u003c\/em\u003e.\"-Martin Lichtmesz, author of \u003cem\u003eEthnopluralismus: Verteidigung und Kritik\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 20, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44244773732403,"sku":"9781642640380","price":145.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/2191\/6467\/files\/gGmmfjO88Y9781642640380.webp?v=1777644579","url":"https:\/\/thereadinghousebookcompany.com\/products\/being-and-the-birds-or-everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-heidegger-but-were-afraid-to-ask-hitchcock-hardcover","provider":"The Reading House Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}