The film ‘Rear Window’‚ directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954‚ enthralled worldwide audiences through its clever and original depiction of a suburban murder. It is a widely renowned crime thriller that employs many conventions of the genre‚ while subverting others‚ in order to portray a realistic environment that collapses into tension and mistrust. The depiction of protagonist L.B Jefferies as the ‘everyman’ is an important subversion of the conventional detective‚ piquing the audiences curiosity
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Rear Window The film I choose to watch and analyze for film techniques is Rear Window‚ Alfred Hitchcock‚ Paramount Pictures‚ 1954. Alfred Hitchcock was known as the “Master of Suspense” for his skills at directing psychological thrillers. How many directors today could make a great thriller like Rear Window work with a camera‚ lights‚ and a window? The fear was not projected up on the movie screen but within the minds of his audiences viewing it. Rear Window has a classification of Genre as a
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Rear Window and Vertigo are two Hitchcock films in which the main character shows voyeuristic behavior‚ experiences relationship problems and suffers from some sort of a handicap‚ be it physical or psychological. Rear Window has to do with a group of peeping toms. As his broken leg heals‚ wheelchair-bound L.B. Jefferies becomes absorbed with the parade of life outside his window and soon fixates on a mysterious man whose behavior has Jefferies convinced a murder has taken place. Many would believe
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Psycho‚ Perfect Crime‚ The Man Who Knew Too Much and Rear Window. At first it was quite difficult to pinpoint a particular film to choose as he used brilliant techniques in all of them. However‚ I have chosen to talk about Rear Window. This is because the fact that the whole film occurs in the same setting and still holds our interest is very hard to do but he was able to by using diverse camera angles and playing with lighting. The film Rear Window is about a man called Jeffries who breaks his leg
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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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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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Fear of Marriage and Voyeurism in Rear Window In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic thriller Rear Window‚ Jimmy Stewart stars as L.B. Jeffries‚ a world traveling magazine photographer accustomed to living a fast pace active lifestyle. When Jefferies injures himself taking a risky picture he is immobilized‚ confined to a wheelchair inside his apartment for two months. Bored with his uneventful life he becomes completely obsessed with the lives of his neighbors spending the majority of his
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visualize the character in one’s head‚ is a clear benefit. One master of film that I have a great respect for is Alfred Hitchcock‚ and one of his many great works was Rear Window. One example of how a film can show us characterization very quickly‚ but still allow us an understanding of every character‚ is when L.B. Jeffries‚ in Rear Window‚ is talking to his girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his insurance caretaker Stella‚ and goes around the entire courtyard displaying his neighbors for us multiple times
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The movie Se7en‚ directed by David Fincher‚ is a cynical film that follows the case from two detectives who are battling a killer who murders on a theme. One detective is about to retire‚ whereas the other is a newbie who is just getting started. This contrast between the two allows for a different perspectives on the murder and why these events are taking place. The dark path that the murder takes brings about different aspects of the world and attempts to demonstrate that extent that the seven
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Andrew Raphaelson Art 138 Prof. Friedberg 11/25/12 Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a demonstration of the world created for us by viewing a film or real life situation. In this movie‚ we gain insight into the point of view of a hidden spectator and the physical space around him. L.B. Jeffries‚ the protagonist of the film‚ who is reduced to nothing but a wheel chair and the view from his window of neighboring apartments‚ witnesses what he suspects to be a murder and shows the
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