The Birds (1963): story as sexual landscape
Mitch Brenner’s got gull trouble. First an attractive woman follows him home, then birds attack his family …
1960s
1960s
Ambiguity of existence: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? explained
Dissecting the real and fake in the book that inspired Blade Runner
The Great Escape (1963) or a good heist?
How The Great Escape mirrors the traditions of heist movies
Rosemary’s Baby (1968): gaslighting Rosemary Woodhouse
Rosemary Woodhouse has been chosen to give Satan a son – she just doesn’t know it yet
Midnight Cowboy, by James Leo Herlihy
Joe Buck dreams of hustling women for fast cash but New York has other ideas
The Man Who Fell to Earth, by Walter Tevis
Walter Tevis’s sci-fi novel inspects what it means to be human