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Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film

John Fawell

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Description:In the process of providing the most extensive analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window to date, John Fawell also dismantles many myths and clichés about Hitchcock, particularly in regard to his attitude toward women.Although Rear Window masquerades quite successfully as a piece of light entertainment, Fawell demonstrates just how complex the film really is. It is a film in which Hitchcock, the consummate virtuoso, was in full command of his technique. One of Hitchcock’s favorite films, Rear Window offered the ideal venue for the great director to fully use the tricks and ideas he acquired over his previous three decades of filmmaking. Yet technique alone did not make this classic film great; one of Hitchcock’s most personal films, Rear Window is characterized by great depth of feeling. It offers glimpses of a sensibility at odds with the image Hitchcock created for himself―that of the grand ghoul of cinema who mocks his audience with a slick and sadistic style.Hitchcock, for example, is famous as a misanthrope who loves nothing more than rubbing his audience's noses in its own criminality and voyeurism. Yet Rear Window resonates with a deep sympathy for humanity and the personal loneliness that leads to crime and voyeurism. Hitchcock is also famous as a misogynist, but new films, Fawell demonstrates, can compare to Rear Window in its empathy for women and the way they suffer at the hands of men. Hitchcock is also known for his manipulative technique―the way he could, through precise editing, control his audience's emotions like so many organ stops. Yet many of the scenes in Rear Window are inscribed with a delicate ambiguity, gently appealing to the audience's imagination and interpretation. Thus, Fawell finds evidence in Rear Window of a more feeling, humane spirit than either Hitchcock’s critics have granted him or Hitchcock himself admitted to. This is the spirit that Fawell emphasizes throughout his study.Accessible to the general reader and film viewer, not just to scholars, Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film includes nine black-and-white illustrations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film. To get started finding Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the process of providing the most extensive analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window to date, John Fawell also dismantles many myths and clichés about Hitchcock, particularly in regard to his attitude toward women.Although Rear Window masquerades quite successfully as a piece of light entertainment, Fawell demonstrates just how complex the film really is. It is a film in which Hitchcock, the consummate virtuoso, was in full command of his technique. One of Hitchcock’s favorite films, Rear Window offered the ideal venue for the great director to fully use the tricks and ideas he acquired over his previous three decades of filmmaking. Yet technique alone did not make this classic film great; one of Hitchcock’s most personal films, Rear Window is characterized by great depth of feeling. It offers glimpses of a sensibility at odds with the image Hitchcock created for himself―that of the grand ghoul of cinema who mocks his audience with a slick and sadistic style.Hitchcock, for example, is famous as a misanthrope who loves nothing more than rubbing his audience's noses in its own criminality and voyeurism. Yet Rear Window resonates with a deep sympathy for humanity and the personal loneliness that leads to crime and voyeurism. Hitchcock is also famous as a misogynist, but new films, Fawell demonstrates, can compare to Rear Window in its empathy for women and the way they suffer at the hands of men. Hitchcock is also known for his manipulative technique―the way he could, through precise editing, control his audience's emotions like so many organ stops. Yet many of the scenes in Rear Window are inscribed with a delicate ambiguity, gently appealing to the audience's imagination and interpretation. Thus, Fawell finds evidence in Rear Window of a more feeling, humane spirit than either Hitchcock’s critics have granted him or Hitchcock himself admitted to. This is the spirit that Fawell emphasizes throughout his study.Accessible to the general reader and film viewer, not just to scholars, Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film includes nine black-and-white illustrations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film. To get started finding Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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