Voyeurism And Criticism In Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) is a story about a photographer on his last week of recuperation from his last assignment where he was severely injured on the race track taking a picture of the wreckage. While recuperating Jeff has come into the deplorable habit of people watching his neighbors outside his rear view window, while watching he suspects one of his neighbors to have murdered his wife. Not being able to provide an eye witness account to what he believes happened he has his nurse stella and fiance to be Lisa he gathers enough probable cause to arrest him.The film focuses on the theme of voyeurism and throughout the film you can see how the camera adds to this effect. Another theme intertwined with it also is romantic involvement …show more content…
Mulvey says that the female form plays two roles she first symbolizes castration because of her absence of having a penis and second role is the che child raiser. Mulvey say that the woman is bound by a symbolic order that a man can live out his phantasies and obsession by imposing them on the silent image of woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning , not the maker of meaning.(Mulvey pp …show more content…
In the movie Jeff makes a statement and claimed that Lisa is” too perfect” Well it may be unrealistic for any man to reject Grace Kelly, the actress for Lisa, there is a certain psychological possibility in Jeff 's fear of Lisa 's” perfection” that is related to men 's fear of women 's differences and his suspicions that they may not after all be imperfect.That is only if you think along the lines that men are perfect and females are the imperfect ones because of this” castration theory”. In the movie Lisa Freemont is anything but helpless and incapable despite movies characterization of her as an object of male gaze, she is experienced as an overwhelmingly powerful presence.Lisa 's dominance in