Rear Window Essay

Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film Rear Window is a representation of the attitudes towards men and women in the 1950's. Through this film Lisa Freemont and L.B Jeffries experience a power shift in their relationship due to each individual's capabilities and ideas regarding the suspected murder case. Lisa and Jeffries relationship progresses through the film and their relationship experiences a power shift. Alfred Hitchcock's film Rear Window released in 1954 portrays the power shift between the fictional

Reality is ultimately dependent upon what is seen and how it gets seen. Rear Window, directed by the renowned Alfred Hitchcock, centers around a temporarily wheelchair-bound photographer and his beautiful, affluent girlfriend, who believe that one of his neighbors has murdered their wife. With the help of his caretaker and a friend of his, who is a detective, they attempt to prove that the murder did indeed take place. L.B “Jeff” Jefferies, played by James Stewart, is the hindered photographer, who

All of the greatest films contain well used cinematic techniques, in the film Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock does not simply use these techniques, but he masters them. For the most part, Rear Window is shot from one perspective, and that perspective is our unmoving protagonist. What this means is that the whole film is shot from one room that the audience never leaves. The concept sounds like the making of a film no one in their right mind would want to see twice, but Hitchcock uses lighting, and

When observing the films: The Man Who Knew Too Much and Rear Window we as the audience can easily be captivated by the essence of the films. The way in which Alfred Hitchcock chose to tell his stories allowed for the audience to not only view the characters journey, but to also be apart of the characters journey. This “it” factor is timeless. This is one of the reasons why Alfred Hitchcock’s movies and literary works have been adored for decades. It is not always what the moral of a story is that

Drama Through Costumes: Lisa Fremont’s Character Growth as Depicted by Her Costumes in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller, Rear Window, broken-legged L.B. Jeffreys, played by James Stewart watches his neighbors through his back window and becomes obsessed with solving a murder mystery in one neighbor’s apartment, aided by Lisa Fremont, played by Grace Kelly. At first, Lisa does not seem able to fit into Jeffreys’ adventurous lifestyle as a photojournalist, nor does

Alfred Hitchcock's Control Of What We See in Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock controls what we see in the film by firstly controlling what the camera shows, he adds small details to the film to provide reasons for various events happening, he also uses each of the characters to convey a message to the public, includes some short but effective shots of some of the characters to stir certain feelings within the audience, uses light humour and sometimes uses only visual aids

In Alfred Hitchcock’s famous film Rear Window, a photographer named L.B. Jefferies is forced to spend the entirety of his time in his apartment after an accident has left him stuck in a wheelchair. To pass the hours of free time he now has, he decides to spend it all looking out his window, overlooking his neighbors and peeking into their business. Throughout the movie, Jefferies takes interests in a large array of characters ranging from a newly-wed couple in their new home, to a bachelor musician

The film "Rear Window" employs a dark psychological storytelling style to illustrate the issue of voyeurism and surveillance while also successfully integrating the audience as a character in the narrative. Being a photographer and observing people with his long-focus camera, Jeff's symbolism expresses his voyeuristic tendencies. Due to his damaged leg, Jeff is restricted to his window and can only stare through this camera into the lives of others to escape reality. The audience is left in the dark

Hitchcock's films Shadow of a Doubt and Rear Window are both perfect examples of all these techniques. Rear window is a film about the main character, L.B Jefferies who had broken his leg and is spending all his time looking out his 'Rear Window' at all of his neighbours, one day he suspects one of his neighbours has killed his wife. The film Shadow of a Doubt features a girl named Charlie, who had been named after her uncle Charlie. Uncle Charlie turns up at

Exploring the symbolic motif of windows and dust, this short narrative acts as a satirical commentary on the degeneration of morality; a truth not unfamiliar to the passage of contemporary society. Explored through the distanced voice of God - the injured voyeur, watching through a window, the unnoticed fall of a wonderous girl under a dust storm of red is documented. Centrally, a narrative criticism on contemporary society - the genre of this narrative is contemporary fiction, and its’ audience