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 and commitment when it come to love and a relationship.Focusing more on the relationship of Lisa and Jeff some would argue that Lisa is an object of the male gaze a passive character while others say she represents the female spectators and has most of the power. In Laura Mulvey paper Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema she introduces the political use of psychoanalytic analysis to discover how the fascination of film is reinforced by pre existing patterns already at work within the social formations in the subject.Also revealing the patriarchal society that has structured film form and where does the female form play a role patriarchal unconsciousness.
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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 711-712) Mulvey then moves on to discuss the Pleasure in looking and the fascination with the human form.Their circumstances When looking itself the source of pleasure just as in the reverse formation there is pleasure in being looked at . Food who wrote three essays on sexuality isolated that scopophilia is one of the most common component instincts of sexuality his examples were around the voyeuristic activities of children their desire to see and make sure of the private and forbidden functions about their and other people 's genitalia.Cinema satisfies the primordial wish for pleasurable looking but also good for their developing narcissistic aspect and scopophilia.There are two aspects that contradict each other the first is scopophilia with your rises from pleasure of using another person as an object of stimulation through sight and the second is narcissism that comes through to go from identification with the image seen. This dichotomy was discovered by Freud and was seen as interacting and overlaying tensions between instinctual drive and self preservation and this continues to be a dramatic polarisation in the terms of viewing pleasure.(Mulvey pp 713-714) Mulvey further discusses the woman as an image the man As bearer of the look. The pleasure and looking has been split by sexual imbalance between the active mail and the passive female. Woman are displayed as sexual objects a lame-o teeth and erotic special spectacle from pinups to strip tease she holds the look of the active male.In Hitchcock 's Rear Window the look is central to the plot Jeff 's girlfriend “Lisa had been of little sexual interest to him, more or less a drag, so long as she remained on the spectator side. When she crosses the barrier between his home …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
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 711-712) Mulvey then moves on to discuss the Pleasure in looking and the fascination with the human form.Their circumstances When looking itself the source of pleasure just as in the reverse formation there is pleasure in being looked at . Food who wrote three essays on sexuality isolated that scopophilia is one of the most common component instincts of sexuality his examples were around the voyeuristic activities of children their desire to see and make sure of the private and forbidden functions about their and other people 's genitalia.Cinema satisfies the primordial wish for pleasurable looking but also good for their developing narcissistic aspect and scopophilia.There are two aspects that contradict each other the first is scopophilia with your rises from pleasure of using another person as an object of stimulation through sight and the second is narcissism that comes through to go from identification with the image seen. This dichotomy was discovered by Freud and was seen as interacting and overlaying tensions between instinctual drive and self preservation and this continues to be a dramatic polarisation in the terms of viewing pleasure.(Mulvey pp 713-714) Mulvey further discusses the woman as an image the man As bearer of the look. The pleasure and looking has been split by sexual imbalance between the active mail and the passive female. Woman are displayed as sexual objects a lame-o teeth and erotic special spectacle from pinups to strip tease she holds the look of the active male.In Hitchcock 's Rear Window the look is central to the plot Jeff 's girlfriend “Lisa had been of little sexual interest to him, more or less a drag, so long as she remained on the spectator side. When she crosses the barrier between his home …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