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…

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…

What does the 1954 mystery thriller Rear Window in common with 2014 action comedy 22 Jump Street? At first glance, the older and newer films have very little in common. The stories they tell have no similarities. Also, the editing styles and techniques are much more complex within the newer motion picture than the older one. However, after careful inspection, both films use the same basic components to achieve their storytelling goals. A similar practice is the use of music to establish or…

In 1954, Alfred Hitchcock directed a film which was named Rear Window. In this movie the main characters 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…

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, Rear Window provides…

Rear Window In the film, Rear Window, Hitchcock makes me feel as though I am trapped as I watch other people's lives behind a lens like he does. To me, the main theme of this movie is his human curiosity and obsession with others and what they are doing in their daily lives. It is almost as though he has his own personal soap opera Television show, just without the Television. I really like the suspense and different kinds of emotions he makes you feel during the film. Four different things…

Style like His Girl Friday and The Rear Window. From my personal experience with these movies, it has just been amazing, the first film captivated me by its realism, clear narrative; how the filmmaker mastered to tell the story, and the link between one event to another, keeping me as a spectator engaged with the narrative and its drama. In addition, the film had a moral message and violent scenes were almost absent. On the other hand, the film The Rear Window, engaged me as a viewer with…

naked or engaged in sexual activity” (Oxford Dictionary, Oxford University Press), but in cinema, voyeurism has been used as a plot tool for decades. Hitchcock films depict the roles a man and woman have in marriage through various tools, but in Rear Window, it is through voyeurism that the story is set in motion, and it is because of the main characters voyeuristic activity that we are able to see how he feels about getting married. This represents a central theme in the film as throughout the…

of Cary Grant by his co-star Eva Marie Saint. The poster also uses Hitchcock’s name as a selling point by placing it above the title, a form of billing that was granted to only a few top directors (Adair 118). It was an added privilege. As in Rear Window the light touch that makes North by Northwest so entertaining disguises deeper concerns. The entire story of the film is woven around an early accident, the idea of Washington agents, willing to sacrifice the life of one or two people to…

to be Doyle. There is a jump cut to where we see Doyle leaning out the window, his back to the camera and then a reverse shot. Doyle is speaking with Jefferies and discredits Jefferies’s theory in the dialogue. We are encouraged to agree with the detective. Doyle says, “It’s too obvious in a stupid way to commit murder”. Doyle also employs some strong premises in this scene such as “(a murder wouldn’t do so) open to 50 windows and then sitting over there smoking a cigar waiting for the police…