Nicole Gonzalez, December 10, 2011.
Rear Window: 112 minutes, 1954 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Awards:
(1955)- nominated in the Oscars for Best Cinematography, Color Robert Burks, Best Director- Alfred Hitchcock, Best Sound, Recording: Loren L. Ryder (Paramount), and Best Writing, Screenplay John Michael Hayes.
(1955)- nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Film from any source.
(2001)- nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Alfred Hitchcock
(1955)- won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Motion Picture John Michael Hayes
(1954)- won the NBR Award for Best Actress Grace Kelly.
(1997)- won the National Film Registry Award
(2005)- nominated for the Satellite Award for Outstanding Classic DVD
(1955)- nominated for WGA Award for Best Written American Drama John Michael Hayes.
Rear Window
The flim theory that I would use for Rear Window is Voyeurism. The main character, L.B. looks at other people through his window; observing people inside their apartments going about their day. Everything changes when him, his girlfriend Lisa and his nurse Stella suspect a man killed his wife. Toward the middle and the end of the movie, Hitchcock uses another theory Genre because it has a typical private eye mystery that keeps the audience suspence when Lisa and Stella sneak inside the neighbor's home and is caught by the same man.
Roger Ebert states, "most of the great movies begin with a simple premise," (Roger, 1). E.B. is in a wheel chair, observing the people. He notices one man's wife dissappears; making the neighbor guilty for murdeuring his wife. In addition, since L.B. is in a wheelchair his imagination is build by watching through his window (PERLMUTTER, 53). Hitchcock uses thrill tactics within the narrative story (54).
In the beginning, L.B. is known to be the voyerist neighbor because he has on a leg casset and sits on a wheelchair all day; find escapeism. The audience learns a little bit more about his girlfriend, Lisa of why they have a distant relationship and is tested when both and Stella try to catch the neighbor because of the murder of the wife. L.B. and Lisa's relationship is put to the test when they are trying to solve a murder mystery and in the end the neighbor is put under arrest.
Alfred Hitchcock knows how to keep the audience suspense by overemphasizing the background score. As well as, using the camera to invite the viewers inside the story. Metaphorically, the camera is a window for the audience for them to be part of a thriller suspense story.
Work Cited
REAR WINDOW: A "CONSTRUCTION-STORY"
Journal of Film and Video , Vol. 37, No. 2, SEXUAL DIFFERENCE (Spring 1985), pp. 53-65
on behalf of the Ebert, Roger. "Rear Window ." rogerebert.com. N.p., 7 Oct. 1983. Web. 10 Dec. 2011.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19831007/REVIEWS/310070302/1023.
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