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    it is picked up from the beginning of the movie “The Rear Window” directed by “Alfred Hitchcock”. This video explains a-lot about the movie that the all scenes would be created and filmed only in these buildings, its story would have been created by relating all the views from the particular window, as it is especially having a name ‘The rear window’. Here the video begins from the window of a room and the camera slowly moves towards the window, shows some buildings like apartments. There is nice

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    Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest movies in American Cinema; every shot and plot point in the story considered a work of art from the creative mind of the ambitious director. Due to this, it has been referenced many times in pop culture, TV shows, amongst other forms of media. One of these TV shows is the long-running titan of cartoons, The Simpsons. The episode “Bart of Darkness” is a parody of the whole movie, using the camera angles and plot points from

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    Relationships in Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” I believe that Hitchcock’s film “Rear Window” is mostly about relationships rather than voyeurism. The entire movie is made up of the personalities and traits that Jefferies has assigned each tenant that he watches. With each new deed he sees them perform, and every assumption that goes along with it, he builds his relationship with the other character. I do think that some of the relationships in “Rear Window” emerge through voyeurism. For example, at

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    Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 ‘Rear Window’ is full of characterization, narratives and symbolism. The film focuses around the main character of the story, Jefferies, who is a photographer but unfortunately recently has to use a wheelchair and stay in an apartment because he broke his leg. Jeff has to spend time alone, so he spends his time watching his neighbors through his camera. Due to the warmth of summer most people had to open their window so now Jefferies can see what is happening in their life

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    Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 movie Rear Window captivates the audience by presenting a thrilling murder mystery, where Jeff Jefferies, the masculine hero, is confined to a wheel chair in his apartment, which leads to the spying on his neighbors. In the movie, Hitchcock beautifully captures the turn of events from Jeff’s wrongful surveillance of his neighbors, to catching the killer. His examination of the idea of surveillance and privacy, plays into the current American debate of the rise of the surveillance

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    of his works dwell considerably on voyeurism, Hitchcock’s 1954 film Rear Window addresses it most directly. Not only does the film comment explicitly on ‘rear window ethics’, it also forces audiences to identify with the characters who violate them. No character in Rear Window is morally clean, and through several cinematic techniques, Hitchcock compels viewers to sympathize with nearly all of them. More than anything, Rear Window is a film about the audience’s complicity with ethically imperfect

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    In Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window, the main character Jeff practice voyeurism. Voyeurism is the practice of spying on other sexual activities for your own pleasure. Jeff was hurt in an accident while being a photographer. Now he sits in his room all day and night in a cast. He sits in his wheelchair and spies on all of his neighbors in the complex. He sees multiple activities going on and some are even suspicious. In Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window, Jeff’s injury turns him into a voyeurist

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    Rear Window One of the the most important elements of Rear Window, and a very clever tactic used by Hitchcock in Rear Window is realism. Ever Since I watch Alfred Hitchcock Rear Window, there is one thing that I wanted to talk about, the film sense of realism, there is couple element that make this whole film feel so real. Throughout the film, the cinematographer uses shots of panning and zooming to make it ever more realistic and makes it seem like the audience are viewing this whole film from the

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    Rear Window Rear Window, tells the story about a photojournalist, L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies, who finds himself confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg and trapped in his apartment with nothing but a window to look out of. Jeff is so used to being in the middle of all the danger and excitement while taking pictures and researching a story that now, he is so bored with being confined to his tiny apartment. It’s such a sizzling summer that all the neighbors leave their windows open and they are seen

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    Hitchcock’s Rear Window, the stylistic elements utilized by the director create a unique availability the depth of information available to both the characters in the film and the audience watching. The entire film is from the perspective of the rear window of the injured photographer Jeff. Jeff, unable to move is stuck with nothing to do but look out his window. As the audience, we are given an objective view, looking over his shoulder as he stares at the lives of his fellow tenants. From the window, we

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