"Rear Window"

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Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film. Ethics of voyeurism explored by the director. Describes main character as a professional photographer and professional voyeur. Confined to a wheelchair after an accident, he "watches" his neighbors thorugh a rear window and discovers their secrets, including a murder. Relation of danger to excitement.

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" Perhaps only one other filmmaker -- Walt Disney -- lived to see his name become synonymous with a certain type of screen entertainment: In Hitchcock's case, it was stylish, sophisticated suspense, laced with humor and romance (Maltin, 1994, n. p.). Ebert has said of Rear Window that "here's a film about a man who does on the screen what we do in the audience -- look through a lens at the private lives of strangers" (2000, n.p.).

Alfred Hitchcock started in the movie making business in 1920, before there was color, before there were talkies , and this greatly influenced the way he directed and filmed a movie -- the way he saw the movie. His experience helped him to understand that a picture is worth more than a thousand words of dialogue. According to Maltin, Hitchcock proved that the presence of sound was no reason not to continue to tell stories ..."

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