Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window released in 1954 portrays the power shift between the fictional couple‚ L.B Jeffries and Lisa Freemont. In the beginning of the film the viewers see Lisa as a perfect‚ high maintenance‚ wealthy woman who did everything to grasp Jeffries attention and prove to him that she is a worthy wife‚ but Jeffries believes "she’s too perfect‚ she’s too talented‚ she’s too beautiful‚ she’s too sophisticated‚ she’s too everything". Despite Jeffries being in a cast‚ sitting in
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window continues and expands on traditional themes of the Detective Fiction Genre. In 1841‚ Murder in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe broke the traditional character constraints of the Crime Fiction Genre‚ by introducing a new type of lead detective figure. The ideal detective figure encompassed traits of superiority‚ intelligence‚ wit and a keen sense for observation. The lead detective figure is a sophisticated character that is not bound to the constrictions and limitations
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crime fiction they should be re-evaluated as the times have changed. Women have fought relentlessly to attain rights and equality which should be represented within this film. I feel my character was merely a device for Hitchcock to exemplify his themes of voyeurism and women being the subject of the male gaze. As even her name is characterised after her body it highlights the stereotype that women are simply at appease the male counterparts. My part within the film is that of being a doppelganger
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‘.. Rear Window reads like an ironic reversal of Bentham’s ‘Panopticon’ as exploited by Foucault’ Write an essay exploring the significance of the surveillant theme evident in the film Rear Window. “We’ve become a race of Peeping Toms – what people ought to do is get outside their house and look in for a change.” – Stella‚ Rear Window‚ 1954. The theme of surveillance is all too clear in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film‚ ‘Rear Window’. From the opening credits‚ we immediately get a sense of what
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of his keen eye for creativity in the simplest of forms. He created art out of the “artless.” Most importantly‚ he created suspense from lighting‚ building up nerve-racking situations‚ and the use of his directing and filming skills. The film Rear Window is no exception to this. Hitchcock created one of the most suspenseful
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neighbor’s windows. Modleski argues that the more important character in Rear Window is the female lead‚ Lisa. She suggests that the photographic portrayal of the female in the film is stronger than that of the invalid protagonist‚ Jeff. Lisa is pictured as active and competent‚ while Jeff is portrayed as incapable and imprisoned within his apartment. She is aggressively sexual while he displays fear of interaction. Juxtaposed with these two characters are their alter egos in a neighboring window: the
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Falling For It (The Theme of Deception in The Open Window) The story “The Open Window” was one that had many different interesting characteristics to it. Throughout the whole thing‚ there are surprises‚ as well as specific details that help the reader understand a little bit better what is going on. In the end of the story‚ it comes as a complete shock to the reader what happens‚ because the author set everyone up very carefully. There were many different techniques that he used in order to set
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Reading Response to a Poem: Boy at the Window (1952) By: Richard Wilbur Patricia A. Murray ENG125 Introduction to Literature Ashford University Tara Whitehead – Instructor February 9th‚ 2013 Reading Response to a Poem – Boy at the Window by Richard Wilbur In Richard Wilbur’s poem Boy at the Window‚ the narrator tells of a boy seeing a snowman left outside in the cold‚ with darkness approaching‚ and relates the boys’ feelings for the dangers of the night that the snowman must face. The
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Windows XP Analysis Windows XP was produced by Microsoft and released on August 24th‚ 2001 (Wikipedia‚ 2012). Wikipedia (2012) stated‚ Windows XP “was the first consumer-oriented operating system produced by Microsoft to be built on the Windows NT kernel.” Windows XP offers functions other previous versions do not‚ making it a popular operating system. It is the first version with product activation to diminish copying the software illegally. Microsoft XP was named “Whistler”‚ in its conception
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The girl in the window was written by Lane Degregory. The girl in the window is about a girl named Dani. She lived in a house more like a closet. The closet she stayed in slept in and was in all the time wasn’t clean‚ there was molded mattress that she slept on and she was surrounded by cockroaches and maggots‚bugs. SHe didn’t have any toys and she didn’t have any clothes that she could actually where. She didn’t come out of the closet and she never went outside‚ never went swimming‚ never felt the
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