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Hitchcock's "Rear Window - The Well-Made Film (Paperback, New Ed)
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Hitchcock's "Rear Window - The Well-Made Film (Paperback, New Ed)
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In the process of providing the most extensive analysis of Alfred
Hitchcock's "Rear Window "to date, John Fawell also dismantles many
myths and cliches 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.
Though Hitchcock is often labeled a misanthrope and misogynist,
Fawell finds evidence in "Rear Window "of a sympathy for the
loneliness that leads to voyeurism and crime, as well as an empathy
for the film's women. Fawell emphasizes" "a more feeling, humane
spirit than either Hitchcock's critics have granted him or
Hitchcock himself admitted to, and does so in a manner of interest
to film scholars and general readers alike.
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