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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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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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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Essay #1 Voyeurism In both films‚ Rear Window and Vertigo‚ film director Alfred Hitchcock requires audiences to put themselves in the position of voyeur as they witness the action of the film through the eyes of the protagonists. Hitchcock introduces to us the meaning of the word voyeurism and the control it can possess over a person. The main characters in both films are voyeurs’ and get their excitement from invading others’ life. Hitchcock was an English-American film director‚ writer‚ and
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visual sense as well and director Alfred Hitchcock knew this and applied it in his movie Rear Window. When Alfred Hitchcock fans refer to his style‚ they are usually referring to Hitchcock’s camera magic and editing. When I think about Hitchcock the first thing that comes to mind is his use of sound effects‚ language‚ and music to create suspense or a sense of understanding. In the film Rear Window‚ there are many occasions where Hitchcock uses sound in order to convey a feeling of terror
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Alfred Hitchcock’s suspense Rear Window (1954) is focused on Jeff‚ formally L.B. Jefferies‚ a cooped up action-shot photographer. After being injured from work‚ Jeff is left with a full-leg cast and nothing to do but peer at his neighbors (a salesman with a spotty marriage‚ a dancer‚ a failing musician‚ a lonely woman and others) through his back window. Jeff’s girlfriend Lisa Fremont‚ a model and fashion consultant‚ and the enthusiastic Stella‚ Jeff’s home nurse‚ both assist Jeff by being his ‘feet
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The famous films‚ Psycho and Rear Window‚ by Alfred Hitchcock use editing and color differently‚ yet have similar base plots. While both films are justly considered suspenseful masterpieces‚ they each achieve this differently. In the film Rear Window‚ the point of view was always set as the main character‚ Jeff. Jeff was stuck in his apartment room due to a broken leg; therefore the camera only showed shots from looking out of his window or in his own room. Hitchcock chose to do this as a way to
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In Alfred Hitchcock’s The Rear Window‚ we’re introduced to L.B. Jefferies‚ a middle-aged man‚ injured in a photo-shoot accident. Because of his limited mobility‚ he passes time observing his neighbors through a window‚ overlooking his apartment lot. Through L.B.J.’s lens‚ the audience is introduced to a recently moved in‚ newly-wed couple. One day‚ L.B.J. sees the husband peering out of his window‚ wearing a white tank-top‚ with a cigarette in one hand‚ smoke already in his mouth. He appears to
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