Megyn Kelly

The opening scene of Rear Window (1954), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, acts as a prologue of the film: we are introduced to the space where much of the narrative will take place, to the protagonist, his background, and his neighbors through entirely visual means. Hitchcock created an entire film from the rear window of a Greenwich Village apartment symbolizing a certain “movie-watching” experience. Hitchcock uses mise en scène to show how the film is going to progress, uses camera movement…

In Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Rear Window, a particular scene begins with main character LB Jeffries confined to his wheelchair with a broken leg, and Stella, LB’s house nurse, watching across the courtyard as LB’s frustrated lover, Lisa, climbs the fire escape and steps into murder suspect, Thorwald’s, open window of his apartment, and begins to search for anything suspicious. Thorwald returns to find Lisa in his apartment. Luckily the police arrive and save her before she is assaulted. The scene…

As Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window has been out since 1954, there have been many reviews and speculations about the film as a whole. The reviews are both positive and negative, some going in depth about the plotline and others giving the basics of the plotline as a reason for their opinion. This film is one that has a very good story, but seemingly questionable ethics and standards. In 1983, Vincent Canby wrote a review about Rear Window for the New York Times. He praised the movie that was…

The classic thriller, suspense film Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock is one of his greatest masterpieces. In a small Greenwich Village apartment, a newspaper photographer with a casted leg takes frequent views of the surrounding Lower East Side apartment buildings, lower courtyard and garden. With a suspicion about one of his neighbors, Jeff believes that one neighbor inparticular is a murder, then decides to solve the mystery himself. With a combination of thriller, action and mystery,…

were Lisa Carol Fremont, L.B. Jeff, and Detective Doyle. L.B. Jeff was played by James Stewart is a man who is confined to his apartment and his only view of the world in looking out his window in his apartment. Lisa Carol Fremont was played by Grace Kelly, she was a model who showed interest in Jeff, but could not get his attention. Detective lieutenant Doyle was played by Wendell Corey was skeptical of Jeff accusing his neighbor of murder until the very end when it was made clear. Throughout…

Chris Hamby proved that muckraking does still exist today. His article “Breathless and Burdened” exposed that law firms such as the Jackson Kelly law firm has cheated thousands of miners of benefits for black lung disease. Chris Hamby’s article shows that muckraking does still exist in 2016 in newspaper as demonstrated by Chris Hamby’s article “Breathless and Burdened”. Chris Hamby is the author of “Breathless and Burdened” and a noted journalist. Chris Hamby went to the University of Missouri…

Critical Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window In films we watch today there is often many different morals or meanings portrayed within the story, sometimes we are unware of these themes when we first watch a film and do not understand it until we have actually thought about the purpose of the film. In Alfred Hitchcock's movie Rear Window, we see many meanings and morals to his story throughout the viewing. For example, the movie prompts us to look at ideas of mortality, compassion,…

neighbor’s murder and her husband’s guilt. The main characters are Jeff, portrayed by Jimmy Stewart (who also starred in numerous other Hitchcock films, most notably Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Rope), his girlfriend, Lisa Carol Fremont (Grace Kelly), his nurse from his insurance company, Stella (Thelma Ritter), his policeman friend Tom Doyle…

The film Rear Window tells a story of a photographer name Jeffries who breaks his leg while taking pictures on a dangerous race track. Because of this, Jeffries is unfortunately stuck on wheelchair in his apartment with nothing to do but to look out the window and see the lives of his neighbors. Throughout the film, one night, Jeffries hears a woman screaming, and he notices one of his neighbor name Thorwald walking in and out of his apartment in middle of the night, carrying a case. Jeffries…

Certain underlying motifs such as the subjective point of view, social and moral critiques, involvement of the audience, or the not ego ideal male protagonist can be used to characterize the Hitchcock film. His 1954 film Rear Window operates by implicating the viewer in the narrative as it presents a visual analysis on the nature of human curiosity and interactions. Throughout the film, L.B. Jeffries, played by James Stewart, is bound to his wheelchair and finds himself peering into the lives of…