Who Said It?
"Sometimes it's worse to stay than it is to run.”
Jeff
Defenestration
The act of throwing / pushing someone out of a window.
Jeff's cast
Insecurities / broken masculinity
“Whatever happened to that old saying, Love thy neighbour?”
Community / Isolation
What massive, global event preceded Hitchcock's film?
World War II
“Thorwald keeps to himself, and none of the neighbours got close to him, or his wife.”
Doyle
Doppelgänger
A shadow self or an identical version of yourself; Thorwald is Jeff’s doppelgänger.
Lisa's dresses
Women as objects / sexualisation of women / expectation of how women should be
“Well, if she’s pretty enough, she doesn’t have to go anywhere. She just has to be.”
Gender
What year was Rear Window released?
1954
“Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.”
Stella
A place or community that encapsulates a greater city or culture on a smaller scale; Jeff’s whole world (at present) exists in the small courtyard of his apartment complex, which is a microcosm of urban New York.
Cutting from a frame of a person, to a frame of object, and back to the person showing emotion in their face. Used to show how a person feels about the object.
Kuleshov Effect
“When a man and a women see each other, they ought to come together, wham, like a couple of taxis on Broadway."
Marriage and Love
Who sang the song, "To See You Is To Love You" which is featured in the film?
Dean Martin
“That’s what is known as ‘manless melancholia’.”
Lisa
Film Noir
A design in prisons where the guard watchtower is in view of all prison cells
“That's a secret, private world you’re looking into out there."
Voyeurism / Ethics
From whose psychological theories does Hitchcock derive many of his film construction for Rear Window?
Freud
“I can see you now, in front of a judge… ‘It was only innocent fun. I love my neighbours like a father’.”
Stella
Proxemics
The space or proximity between people, and how this has a bearing on a person’s feelings; Hitchcock utilises the proxemics within Jeff's cramped, yonic apartment to represent the claustrophobic pressures of marriage.
Binoculars / Telephoto lens
Voyeurism
“The only way anyone could get it off would be to chop off my finger.”
Marriage and Love
What political practice publicised accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient evidence?
McCarthyism