Rear Window Words

Question 1

Hitchhcock uses paranoia and suspense to create an unfamiliar setting and critical audience who are paranoic about the murder of ms thorwald

Answer 1

Paranoic

Question 2

Jeff does not overcome his patriarxhal tendencies thiugh the film exposes his oppressive masculinity

Answer 2

Patriarchal

Question 3

The title reflects both the ethics pf looking outward and ironically jeffs to look inward. Therefore the title aso functions as a metaphor as it alludes to a portal to jeffs inner desires

Answer 3

Metaphor

Question 4

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 advebtures has become a part kf both lisa and jeffs shared view of domesticity

Answer 4

Domesticity

Question 5

The pervasive male gaze encapsulated in rear window reflects a freudian understanding of repressed desire

Answer 5

Male gaze

Question 6

Hitchcock uses a point of view shots a panopticon set design the kuleshov effect and zoom to highlight the role of scopophilia in an urban society

Answer 6

Scopophilia

Question 7

Complicity

Answer 7

Using multiple point of view shots hitchcoxk positions the audience to be complicit in jeffs voyeurism

Question 8

Epistomological vioelnce

Answer 8

Doyles arrogant dismissa of female intuition is indicative of the epistemological violence experienced by women

Question 9

Panopticon

Answer 9

The apartment layout is reminiscent of facaults panopticon in which the occupants are perfectly indivdualised and constantly visible

Question 10

Escapism

Answer 10

Just as jeff watches his neighbours to avoid his problems, the average cinemagoer goes to the movies as a form of escapism

Question 11

Anodyne

Answer 11

When thorwald leaves his apartment in the middle of the night, the anodyne sound of steady rain and the ghostly calls of a foghorn add to the tension