**Marxists at the Movies is taking next week off, but we'll be back for our next Patreon early release on September 27th, next wide release October 1st. We're not giving away the title but it's going to be our very first horror movie!**
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) isn’t just a horror classic—it’s a window into Cold War anxieties, gendered panic, and the way capitalist society naturalizes fear itself. In this episode of Marxists at the Movies, Edward Michael Francis digs beneath the feathers and talons to reveal how Hitchcock stages collective dread, social collapse, and the disciplining of women through spectacle.
We’ll trace how the film reflects patriarchal control, ecological warning signs, and the contradictions of the suburban dream. And of course—what happens when the systems of order fail, and the birds stop playing by the rules?
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