Film Elements Research
Rear Window
DIRECTOR: Alfred Hitchcock YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1954 COUNTRY: USA LANGUAGE: English Week 1: Discuss the relationship between spectators and cinema in relation to the film style of Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock.
Stam, Robert and Roberta Pearson, “Hitchcock's Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism,” in Deutelbaum and Poague, eds, A Hitchcock Reader, 2nd ed, Chichester, UK. & Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” uses voyeurism as the main idea that the movie focuses on. The main character L.B. Jeffry had an interest in monitoring his neighbourhood through his window; actually he gained the interests due to his broken leg. His occupation as a photographer linked with the voyeurism as it is a voyeuristic job; it was shown in the beginning of the movie whereby the scene focuses on few of the pictures hanging on the walls, a mise-en-scene of Jeffry’s apartment. There was also a professional camera in his apartment which builds up the character’s characteristic. Facing the fact that he cannot go to work because of his injuries, he has to resort to a different kind of voyeurism from voyeur for his work to his home life. “Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism” by Roberta Pearson and Robert Stam, who state that ‘His profession of photojournalism assumes and exploits a kind of voyeurism’ (p.197).
This movie links with curiosity and the desire to give his attention into the others. Jeffry’s curiosity begins with enjoyment seeing what the others did in their daily lives but it all turns out to spying, in the scene shown he started to use camera lenses and binoculars soon as his monitoring had become serious (Thorwald’s murder). Some of the main characters in the movie which are his fiancée (Lisa) and his nurse (Stella) presented Jeffry’s character as a voyeur ‘Peeping Tom’, ‘Window Shopper’.
Jeffry’s anxiousness on his neighbour’s routine makes him
DIRECTOR: Alfred Hitchcock YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1954 COUNTRY: USA LANGUAGE: English Week 1: Discuss the relationship between spectators and cinema in relation to the film style of Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock.
Stam, Robert and Roberta Pearson, “Hitchcock's Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism,” in Deutelbaum and Poague, eds, A Hitchcock Reader, 2nd ed, Chichester, UK. & Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” uses voyeurism as the main idea that the movie focuses on. The main character L.B. Jeffry had an interest in monitoring his neighbourhood through his window; actually he gained the interests due to his broken leg. His occupation as a photographer linked with the voyeurism as it is a voyeuristic job; it was shown in the beginning of the movie whereby the scene focuses on few of the pictures hanging on the walls, a mise-en-scene of Jeffry’s apartment. There was also a professional camera in his apartment which builds up the character’s characteristic. Facing the fact that he cannot go to work because of his injuries, he has to resort to a different kind of voyeurism from voyeur for his work to his home life. “Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism” by Roberta Pearson and Robert Stam, who state that ‘His profession of photojournalism assumes and exploits a kind of voyeurism’ (p.197).
This movie links with curiosity and the desire to give his attention into the others. Jeffry’s curiosity begins with enjoyment seeing what the others did in their daily lives but it all turns out to spying, in the scene shown he started to use camera lenses and binoculars soon as his monitoring had become serious (Thorwald’s murder). Some of the main characters in the movie which are his fiancée (Lisa) and his nurse (Stella) presented Jeffry’s character as a voyeur ‘Peeping Tom’, ‘Window Shopper’.
Jeffry’s anxiousness on his neighbour’s routine makes him