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    The film the Rear window start like a puzzle has an offers an outstanding example of the study of the problems of how we are understanding social actions. Hitchcock understood the important experiment about the processes of interpreting images and stories. Max Weber held that our beliefs can influence the social structure. The Protestant Ethic, with its ambiguities and job, is a clear appearance of this idea. On that point, he opposed Marx’s call that the social structure determines our mental institution

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    when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity’. However, the term is also used to describe a general spying on, or having interest in, other people’s lives. This kind of voyeurism is the central theme for Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery thriller, Rear Window (1954). The film follows the boredom-induced curiosity of photographer L.B. ‘Jeff’ Jefferies. Bound to his wheelchair with a broken leg, he has little to do with his time, and finds himself looking into and involving himself in, the lives of his

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    Rear Window has a unique filmography. Emphasising the idea of voyeurism and watching others. Observing the first scene instead of beholding the main character or even side characters, recognizing the building of the various apartments and the courtyard and finally Jeff is presented. Jeff is a broken man. He lays down sweating, asleep on a chair. Only catching a glimpse of Jeff. He is not important instead the film focuses on the people in the apartments nearby in the rest of the film he will watch

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    In any neighbourhood, a sense of community is something that is quite often present. In fact, in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Rear Window, viewers witness a man progressively gaining a deep comprehension of his neighbours through his deeply-rooted voyeuristic desires to delve into their lives. In its entirety, the film demonstrates through its protagonist how this neighbourhood is too dispassionate and unconcerned to classify as a community. However, Hitchcock’s portrayal of how commonalities between

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    Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a voyeuristic point-of-view (POV) style of filming. The point-of-view captures the intimate details of the neighbors lives through the view of Jimmy Stewarts character L. B. Jefferies (Jeff). Hitchcock set the tone for movies of the POV style. There are many films today that have used the same POV techniques, such as 2007’s Disturbia, directed by D.J. Caruso, who was inspired by Rear Window. Although the setting are different, Disturbia gives the audience the view

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    Like many of his films, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) is an intense study in the sometimes-jarring idiosyncrasies of its main character, L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart). Jeffries is an observer by nature, a professional photographer confined to his apartment by an injury, with only insurance company nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter) and his girlfriend, Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly) for company. This limitation impels him to begin observing his neighbors, and he witnesses events that lead him to believe

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    The film Rear window is not a worthy adaptation of the short story “It had to be Murder” because it does not develop the theme, character, and literary devices well through the failed use of film techniques. First, the theme love, is focused a lot more in the film Rear Window than in the short story “It had to be Murder”. The film had a great deal of information about Hal Jefferies relationship with Lisa. It also, showed us about Miss Lonesome and her problems she went through trying to find a man

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    In the movie, Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock uses the story of a cripple free lance photographer, Jeff Jeffries, to explain the twisted sense of society in the 1950’s. Hitchcock uses clever things from the way the apartments are being filmed to the dialogue between Jeffries, Lisa, and Stella to show societies interest in pain, tragedy, and discomfort, and in the end you see how tragedy is what makes everyone happy.      From the very beginning of Rear Window we encounter scenes where Hitchcock shows

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    The film Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, demonstrates the dynamics of love and marriage, displaying positive and negative aspects of relationships. In the beginning of the movie, Jeff observes a newly married couple. Unlike the rest of the tenants, the newlyweds are the only people to draw the shades, despite the extreme heat. The man is seen carrying his wife into the apartment, which symbolizes a happy and loving relationship, something Jeff and Lisa hope to achieve. However, by the

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    Rear Window and The Birds were both filmed around the 1960’s a time in which the film industry was experiencing a great downfall. Because there were so many movements going on around the world such as, feminist movements, racial movements, post war movements, political movements etc. many films were not successful and there were many different genres that were being used in films. There were also many different independent films that were produced; this had an influence on American film as well.

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