Social graces

Cinematic perception can be understood using the metaphor of cinema as a window and frame.  Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is an concrete example of this metaphor from both a critical viewpoint as an audience member, and from the perspective of the protagonist, L.B. Jefferies.  Thomas Elsaesser believes that the cinema of the window offers a “special, ocular access to an event” and the screen is transformed from a two dimensional narrative into a three-dimensional environment within which the audience

Analysing a five minute clip of Secret Window for Mise en Scene and Performance The first thirty seconds of this clip are of the main character, Mort Rainey in his car. The first thing we see is the book in his hands, the depth of focus changes as he runs his finger across the stubs of pages. The focus changes as the character makes a discovery, this could be to emphasise to the audience how important this discovery might come to be. Then we are shown the character himself, the only thing slightly

Grace Hopper is known as the mother of computer programming and a leading innovator of her time. Born Grace Brewster Murray on December 9, 2016, Grace grew up in an upper class family in Manhattan (Heath, 2011). She attended Vassar College in New York at the age of 17, and graduated in 1928 with a Bachelor’s Degree in math and physics (Isaacson, 2014). Two years later she would be the eleventh woman to graduate from Yale University with a Master’s Degree in Mathematics (Norman, 1997). She married

Summary: Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock starts out with the introduction of everyone who lives in an apartment complex in New York. Looking out of the main character Jeff’s window we see a newly married couple, a ballerina, a musician, a salesman with a bedridden wife, and a woman they call Ms. Lonely Hearts, pretending to be on a date. As Jeff battles with relationship problems with his girlfriend Lisa and being confined to a wheelchair he begins to observe out his window and watch the people

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope is a remarkable film that gives the illusion of a non-stop shot. The film is all about hiding secrets, and the whole plot consists of the main characters Brandon and Phillip covering up a murder that they committed. But a murder isn’t the only thing that Phillip and Brandon are trying to hide. Alfred Hitchcock presents the characters Brandon and Phillip in a way that supports that they are in a homosexual relationship. If you pay close attention through the whole film you

The film Rear window is not a worthy adaptation of the short story “It had to be Murder” because it does not develop the theme, character, and literary devices well through the failed use of film techniques. First, the theme love, is focused a lot more in the film Rear Window than in the short story “It had to be Murder”. The film had a great deal of information about Hal Jefferies relationship with Lisa. It also, showed us about Miss Lonesome and her problems she went through trying to find a man

All of the greatest films contain well used cinematic techniques, in the film Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock does not simply use these techniques, but he masters them. For the most part, Rear Window is shot from one perspective, and that perspective is our unmoving protagonist. What this means is that the whole film is shot from one room that the audience never leaves. The concept sounds like the making of a film no one in their right mind would want to see twice, but Hitchcock uses lighting, and

In both the movie, Rear Window, and the short story, It had to be Murder, there are numerous similarities and differences that are noticed. Overall it is a story of a man that is wheelchair bound at home who passes time by people watching. When people watching, the man named Jeff notices unusual things taking place in a neighbors apartment. The neighbor named Mr. Thorwald has an ill wife at home that is bed bound. The narrator Jeff one day realises that the wife Ann, is no longer in bed and that

In To Catch a Theif, Frances Stevens is played by Grace Kelly, another favorite of Hitchock's. Frances is a beautiful, strong-willed, and clever woman. Like many Hitchcock blondes she seems to be rather forward and strong, not quite fitting the role of women in movies at the time. While Frances isn't quite

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a voyeuristic point-of-view (POV) style of filming. The point-of-view captures the intimate details of the neighbors lives through the view of Jimmy Stewarts character L. B. Jefferies (Jeff). Hitchcock set the tone for movies of the POV style. There are many films today that have used the same POV techniques, such as 2007’s Disturbia, directed by D.J. Caruso, who was inspired by Rear Window. Although the setting are different, Disturbia gives the audience the view