Hitchcock’s Rear Window is often remembered due to its stark display of voyeurism and the moral ambiguities it provides. The main character‚ Jeff‚ is immobilized for the summer and in order to pass the time begins to follow the lives of his neighbors by spying on them. The obvious response is that this is spying and is thus immoral‚ however through his voyeurism Jeff is able to catch a murderer who would have otherwise gone free. However‚ beyond the voyeur exterior‚ Rear Window depicts the growth
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Rear Window Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart‚ Grace Kelley‚ Wendell Corey‚ Thelma Ritter‚ Raymond Burr Screenplay: John Michael Hayes based on a short story “It Had to be Murder” by Cornell Woolrich published 1942 Cinematography: Robert Burks Music: Franz Waxman Paramount Pictures Use of Subjective point of view. Someone said there are two kinds of people in the world‚ there are people who
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Writing. Caruso examines the social mores of their respective contexts while combining the traditional conventions of crime writing with their own unique twist. Caruso’s Disturbia depicts a new high tech world of voyeurism; directly parallel to Rear Window but with the added social facts of modernity and new technology to appeal to a younger audience. The protagonist and amateur sleuth Kale‚ being “6 months shy of eighteen” is judged as an undependable
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Rear Window: Irresistible Voyeurism Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a uniquely captivating film that is an exemplary style of cinematic craftsmanship. Reaching into the minds of the characters‚ as well as the audience‚ Alfred Hitchcock is the master at utilizing the juxtaposition of images to bring us into the minds of the characters. In Rear Window‚ the story is so distinctively executed that it allows us to relate to our own curiosities‚ question our identities‚ and ponder our closest
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Firstly I would like to say that Rear window is a true classic film. The film is a is the mother of all suspense thriller film and the director Alfred Hitchcock is the father of the genre. The predictability of the film proof its originality ‚pioneered and innocence compared to the films of its genre today. Films today has matured from its roots which is Rear Window but have not lost its core elements. The only difference between films today of the same genre and Rear Window is that movies nowadays forcefully
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In the 1950’s film Rear Window‚ director Alfred Hitchcock sets his entire work looking through a man‚ L.B. Jeffries’ rear window. Because of his broken leg‚ Jeffries is confined to his apartment‚ and even to his wheelchair. It is here‚ in his apartment‚ that the protagonist watches‚ or even spies on his neighbors. He draws conclusions on these people‚ but from a distance: across the apartment-building courtyard. In addition to this physical distance separating Jeffries from his neighbors‚ his perspective
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The Rear Window In the short story‚ “The Rear Window”. News photographer Jeff Jeffries is seemingly confined to a wheelchair day after day and is boredom struck. He assumes the only feasible means of an extracurricular activity is by spying on the other tenants through his rear window of his apartment of Greenwich Village. This story is an imagery into the real lives of other people and sometimes looking to other people’s lives and forgetting about the handicap in our own lives. This takes the
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In the film Rear Window‚ Alfred Hitchcock likes to play around with different perspectives to convey different branches of his narrative without deviating too much from the main plot. The other thing about meddling with perspectives in this film is that it goes hand in hand with the themes of spectatorship and voyeurism that this film is teeming with. What Rear Window tries to do with its shot selection and camera angles is to immerse the viewer by putting them into Jeff’s shoes while also trying
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In crime writing‚ composers not only scrutinise justice but also experiment with textual forms and features in response to different contexts In Rear Window (Hitchcock 1954) Hitchcock scrutinises justice through the actions by the detective in solving the crime‚ which causes the audience to question certain ethics during the context of the film. However‚ through the use of various forms of textual features‚ Hitchcock enables the audience to empathise with the characters in the film and try to
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English B1A 9 September 2013 An Abnormal L.B. Jeffries in Rear Window The movie Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock is about a photographer Jeffries‚ who has a broken leg‚ is sitting next to his window‚ spying on his neighbors since they share the same courtyard‚ and later on being curious about one his neighbors‚ Mr. Thorwald‚ must have involved in his wife ’s disappearance. Hitchcook ’s label for most of his work is the lack of romantic
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