Rear window Flashcards
Paranoic
Hitchcock uses paranoia and suspense to create an unfamiliar setting and critical audience who are paranoic about the murder of mrs throwald.
Patriarchal
Jeff does not overcome his patriarchal tendencies, though the film exposes gis oppressive masculinity.
Metaphor
The title reflects both the ethics of looking outward ahd the ironically ieffs inability to look inward.
Therefore, the title is also functions as a metaphor as it alludes to a portal to jeffs inner desires and fears.
Domesticity
Throughout the film Jeff fears the limitations of marriage, yet in the final scene we see a content Jeff who has come to realise that the possibility of adventures has become a part of both Lisa and jeffs shared view of domesticity.
Male gaze
The pervasive male gaze encapsulated in Alfred Hitchcocks thriller rear window reflects a Freudian understaning of repressed desires.
Freudian
jeff looks at other people in the community with the very male based approach wilhich came through his childhood.
Scopophillia
Hitchcock uses point of views shots, a panoptican set design, the kuleshov effect and zoom to highlight the role of scopophillia in an urban society.
Escapism
Just as Jeff watches his neighboura to avoid hos problems, the average cinamagoer goes to the movies as a form of escapism.
Complicity
Using the multiple point of view of shots, Hitchcock positions the aidience to be complicit in Jeffs voyeurism.
Epistemological violence
Doyles arrogant dismissal ‘female intuition’ is indicative of the epistemological violence experienced by women.
Panopticon
The apartment layout is reminiscent of Facaults pabopticon in which the occupants are ‘perfectly individualised and constantly visible’
Depicts
Portray in words; describe
Determines
Cause (something) to occur in a particular way or to have a particular nature.
Connotes
(Of a word) imply or suggest (an idea or feeling) in addition to literal or primary meaning.
Signifies
To make a sign or signal
