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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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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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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My character‚ Miss Torso is outgoing and full of life. She has a passion for dancing and it finds a way into every aspect of her life. She dances whilst making breakfast and entertains male guests as it is highly amusing. The enthusiasm I embody cannot be faked and is clearly seen in the opening scenes. Hitchcock‚ my director manipulates my character and her personality to be overtly sexualised and purely for the viewing of male counterparts. I resent the portrayal of my character having to rely
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The scene begins when Lisa comes to Jeff’s apartment with dinner. After the waiter leaves the dinner‚ Lisa and Jeff have a drink next to the window discussing Lisa’s day and Jeff’s future plans. Lisa is sitting on the right side of the window and Jeff is on the left side. In the middle of the window‚ there is a beam that splits the window into two halves. People in the background can clearly be seen in the opposing side of the apartment complex. Alfred Hitchcock uses this scene to get the movie watcher
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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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Although Sula is arranged in chronological order‚ it does not construct a linear story with the causes of each new plot event clearly visible in the preceding chapter. Instead‚ Sula uses "juxtaposition‚" the technique through which collages are put together. The effects of a collage on the viewer depend on unusual combinations of pictures‚ or on unusual arrangements such as overlapping. The pictures of a collage don’t fit smoothly together‚ yet they create a unified effect. The "pictures" of Sula’s
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All through the season‚ I did a technique called the glide. That was the normal high school technique. For a freshman and a new thrower‚ I did very well. That summer I went to a camp and I learned a new technique called rotational that many college throwers do. I found it to be very fun‚ so I thought that I’d try it during the school season. I practiced it
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The Narrative Techniques in Wuthering Heights Although Wuthering Heights was Emily Bronte’s only novel‚ it is notable for the narrative technique she employed and the level of craftsmanship involved in it. Although there are only two obvious narrators‚ Lockwood and Nelly Dean‚ a variety of other narratives are interspersed throughout the novel. The reasons for this are that the whole action of Wuthering Heights is presented in the form of eyewitness narrations by people who have played some part
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