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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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 (1954) is an intriguing‚ brilliant‚ macabre Hitchcockian visual study of obsessive human curiosity and voyeurism. John Michael Hayes’ screenplay was based on Cornell Woolrich’s (with pen-name William Irish) original 1942 short story or novelette‚ It Had to Be Murder. This film masterpiece was made entirely on one confined set built at Paramount Studios - a realistic courtyard composed of 32 apartments (12 completely furnished) - at a non-existent address in Manhattan (125 W. 9th Street)
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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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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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stand out are the thrillers Rear Window and Psycho. These films capture the viewer and create an atmosphere so unique and fresh that you feel as though you personally know the characters; sometimes you even feel like you’re becoming the characters. Although the films have many similarities they both have completely different moods and themes. Most importantly the films can still hold up against today’s incredibly high-budget Hollywood movies. A main theme in Rear Window is voyeurism‚ exhibited by
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After watching Rear Window for a second time I’ve come to realize that not only is Alfred Hitchcock a great director‚ but also a great movie watcher. What I’m trying to say is that he knows exactly what people want to see in certain movies. Voyeurism captures the attention of anyone‚ viewers want to “spy” on the characters without being seen‚ and they want to be in positions that reality doesn’t allow them to be in. Hitchcock knows this feeling all too well‚ making one of the greatest movies of all
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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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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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ESSAY – EXTENSION ENGLISH Anil’s Ghost‚ Rear Window and 2 ORTS: crime fiction genre‚ texts‚ contexts‚ values and techniques “While the genre of crime writing covers a wide diversity of texts‚ these texts all engage with investigating a crime and associated social and moral issues” Conventions shape a text and are adopted to suit a specific audience or contextual purpose. The genre of crime writing covers a wide diversity of texts that through the composer’s contextual influences and intentions
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