Alfred Hitchcock And Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock And Rear windowpaneBefore Hitchcock became a world-famous director, he was an art director and a organise designer. As a result of these experiences, he made huge thrust in the design of the locate of Rear Window. The set of design in Rear Window can be defined as theatrical, display only few sets Jeffs apartment, the courtyard, the complex building, and the tightly street from Jeffs apartment view. Essenti all in ally, all of them have no connection but Hitchcock used the cinematic engine room to connect Jeffs fabrication and his neighbor. Besides the cinematic technology, Jeffs neurotic or psychotic behavior connects the neighbor in the story of the movie. There are both changes of impertinents reports Jeff and Hitchcock. The narrative story is about Jeff and Hitchcock baksheeshs of view and perspective of the neighbor. In roughly level, it means the reflection of Jeffs feeling and the exploration of the relationship between all-knowing (Hitchcock) a nd subjective (Jeff) narrators. From Rear Window, both of the narrators (i.e. Hitchcock and Jeff) reflects Jeff psychological conditions much(prenominal) as disturbance because of career and marriage from the neighbors life through the cinematic technology such as television camera movement, framing and editing.The sequence from 225-332 shows Jeffs anxiety, ambivalency and proclivity mainly about his career through the camera cuts to versatile windows of neighbor. The sequence starts when Jeff is reposeing therefore the camera movement is Hitchcocks likely. Compare to Jeffs daub of view shots in the movie, the camera movement of Hitchcock narration is much mobile. Jeffs narration is shot re attain shot, it reflects his immobility because of his low-toned leg. On the former(a) hand, Hitchcock as omniscient narrator narrates through the camera movement to engage us in the cause and effect logic to assemble Jeffs story and punctuate so the audition can understand why Jeff attempted to do later of the films. Hitchcock simply introduced Jeffs neighbor to the auditory modality close to the courtyard. Actually he is telling the story of Jeff to the audience. First, the camera cuts to the studio of songwriter who turned absent the radio set. He turns it off because the announcers challenge struck the songwriters anxiety. At the same time, the question about the marriage of Lisa causes anxiety to Jeff. He doubts if he is non the veracious man for Lisa. The photos in her apartment showed that he loves freedom and calamity. More importantly, he is not as rich as Lisa. Therefore he cannot contribute the quality of that Lisa is used to be. He is no longer unfledged and he doesnt have a studio. Both of them evade their problems. The songwriter turns off the radio because he doesnt want to face his problem. He thinks there is no expressive style to solve the problem. At the same time, Jeff has no confidence on taking care Lisa as a photographer. It is one of the reasons why he refused Lisas day of the month later.Miss Torso showed when the camera continues to pan left after the songwriter, and the unfruitful couples. It is a long shot of her dancing practice in the apartment. The camera focused on her leg that reflected Jeffs desire of physical freedom and his crushed leg. He is forced to be immobile therefore he cannot quest for his goal. He worries about being able to renew his artistic abilities as a photographer after his recovery. Jeff admires the dancer because of the huge efforts she exerted tour dancing. He also wants to practice as hard as the dancer. As a photographer, it is shame that he cant take photo in attend of the attractive girl therefore he chose to voyeur.Further much, the attractive dancer holds the precaution of both Jeff and audiences. In many cases, female characters are the visual pleasure of males in many Hollywood movies. Voyeurism in Rear Window is for the most part a masculine activity. Je ff understands that unlike the relationship, there is no responsibility after his voyeur. He would rather watch Miss Torso than touch the women next to him. It shows how he tries to escape the marriage and the love of Lisa. Also, Rear Window undefendable the psychological obsession of the society. Besides that, Laura Mulvey intensively analyzed the serious voyeurism of Jeff and pull down Hitchcock in her article called The Oppositional Gaze where she reveals that when Lisa across to the salesman apartment from Jeff apartment, their relationship changed dramatically. It is the firstly time he uses the lens to voyeur Lisa in distant which is alike(p) to his voyeurism to Miss Torso. Nevertheless, Mulvey claims that voyeurism is a positive practice. She borrowed Freuds idea to describe that the audience projects the repress desire to the female or female character through the transfer of view editing and identifying the spectator. Most part of the movie are in Jeffs and Hitchcock s maculation of view. It completely clarifies how the unconscious patriarchal society constructed much of the events in the film.According to Woolrich, the movie is all about women and violence. The scholar Anthony J. Mazzella claims that Apart from the tally victim, the mistress, the forerunner of Miss Lonelyhearts, and the newlywed wife, there are no major(ip) women characters in the story. There is no Miss Torso no Lisa chirrup Fremont. (63) The role of women play in the movie is for the male gaze and acceptable the audiences voyeurism. Mazzella informs that in the movie, Mrs. Thorwald was chopped and scattered in the East River. On the other hand, Mr. Thorwald buried her whole body apartment building. The story of film is more attractive to the audience when Jeffs story links with more violence, women then Woolrichs story only links to violence.The next camera sees the children playing, dancing and laughing most the street- cleaning truck wherein the children can alter o ff by the sprayer of the truck. Hitchcock is telling through this shot that Jeff is longing. Jeff wants to be like the children who can cool off by the truck in the hot and moist weather. The spot of this shot is a wish- an expression of Jeffs desire. Jeff is forced at home already six weeks. He looks like the bird in the cage which showed in the camera before moving back into Jeffs apartment and bringing the prospective from Hitchcock to Jeff. These images function like a mirror to project desires and fears from Jeffs oral sex by and by Hitchcocks prospective of Jeffs feeling, it is point to another scene of Jeff. Now, it is Jeffs turn to tell his psyche about marriage to the audience reflect from his neighbor. In the dialogue with the visit nurse, Stella Jeff stated again that Lisa would not be able to adapt his venturesome life, but the truth is that he is afraid that he cannot adapt himself to her necessarily since he is the exact opposite in her love of fashion, comfort and wealth. It reflected on the newlyweds on the left. Although Jeff feels good about the marriage from the newlyweds in the first time he slowly realized that the young wifes sexual demands increases and the husband move up it difficult to satisfy. In this movie, most of the female characters such as the young wife, Mrs. Thorwald, Miss Lonelyhearts and Lisa rely on the male and asking something from man. The young wife increasing sexual demands, Mrs. Thorwalds constant need for attention from Mr. Thorwald, Miss Lonelyheartss desire of love, and Lisas desire of stable marriage are showed and threatened Jeff.In the point of view editing links Jeff and the Thorwalds during the phone conversation with Gunnison, his editor at the magazine. It is the first time in the movie that the dialogue and the visual action coincide. As they talk off- screen about marriage, the camera shows Mr. Thorwald and Mrs. Thorwald are arguing. The dreary marriage and estrangement relationship also shows in th e decoration of the Thorwalds apartment. They acquire separate rooms- Mr. Thorwald, the living room Mrs. Thorwald, the bedroom. Additionally, the people of colours of the walls of these rooms are diametrical wherein Mrs. Thorwalds bedroom was painted in a cool color while Mr. Thorwalds living room is painted with warm color. It means Mrs. Thorwald feels suffering and get down on the invalid and the disloyalty of herhusband. Although Mr. Thorwald suffers the nagging from his wife, he has a mistress therefore, the color is in warm tone. In Jeffs perception of the Thorwalds marriage is a kind of prison or like a bird trapped in spite of appearance the cage. Jeff and Thorwalds are denied of the freedom to move. It refers not only his present immobility of his broken leg but also to his possible marriage to Lisa.The mirroring of shots of dinner party with Lisa is more complex than the conversation between Jeff and Gunnison. The dinner shot was built around a pattern of alternation from story- space to story- space or from Jeff as agent to Jeff as spectator. The editing here is same as other point of view shots to establish Jeffs voyeuristic interest in his neighbor. As Lisa prepares dinner for Jeff, Jeff watches Miss Lonelyhearts and links the implicit similarity between her and Lisa who are preparing dinner for a man who is not really here for them. Furthermore when Lisa begins to set the table for dinner, Jeff also looks at Thorwalds who is having dinner. Jeff and Mrs. Thorwald have the implicit similarity which they rebuffed their partners dinner preparing. It shows the relationship of Jeff and Lisa is as worst as the Thorwalds. The Thorwalds marriage made Jeff not to believe in marriage. He doesnt want his marriage look be the same as the Thorwalds therefore, he denied it to Lisa. Jeff identifies himself and Mr. Thorwald as unstable men. Jeff likes to take adventure to seek the art and Mr. Thorwald just wants to fool around.Hitchcocks great achievement in the period of his career was showed by Rear Window. Through the narration of Hitchcock and Jeff, the audience realizes Jeffs changing. Before, he likes to put himself in risk and adventure as showed in the photos in the apartment. Jeff develops the narration of Hitchcock by his investigation of the murder case. Finally, Jeff paid the damage of voyeur which his two legs are broken. He decides not voyeur and sleep peacefully. In the final shot about the neighbor is the newlywed wife nagging the husband by Hitchcocks narration. It tells us although the Thorwalds story is end (the new point cover over the bloodstained wall), the problems in marriage does not end and seems to be a repetition of situation between the Thorwalds. These unlike narrative voices produced a layered narration. Hitchcock provides different mediating agencies to tell story which audience can classify the narrators between omniscient (Hitchcock) and subjective (Jeff). Work CitedRaubicheck, Walter., and Srebnick Walter, ed. Hitchcocks Rereleased Films. DetroitWayne disk operating system University Press, 1991. Print.Mulvey, Laura. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Oxford University Press, 1975.Print.