![]() ![]() ![]() Alfred Hitchcock's film 'The Birds' appeared in 1963 and firmly established the animal attacks theme. If man was going to threaten the natural world then the natural world would strike back. Inevitably these concerns would be reflected in novels and films. Rachel Carson's 1962 science book 'Silent Spring' covered the devastating impact on the environment of the use of pesticides and made concerns about man's environmental impact part of mainstream culture. It was not a new subject, for example H G Wells's 1904 novel 'Food of the Gods' had featured marauding giant wasps, earwigs, rats and chickens, but it had never before featured in so many new books. Over the course of the decade every animal from the smallest insect to the largest marine mammal rose up and challenged humankind's dominion over nature in the pages of the decade's paperbacks. In the 1980s the theme of animals attacking humans found a home in pulp horror novels. In the 2010s, videos of animals attacking people are a staple of YouTube and other online video platforms. 'When animals attack' was the title of a popular show on Fox television in the 1990s which featured footage of animals both domestic and wild attacking humans. ![]()
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