A few weeks ago Jim Groom and I watched Rear Window, a classic film on many levels- you cannot go wrong with picking a Hitchcock film to analyze. I hardly consider myself a film critic, and what I write below comes from my own perspective, not having read any reviews or Wikipedia entries. The goal for a ds106 assigned bit of work was to try and read a movie in light of the concepts outlined by Roger Ebert, looking for the nuances of character placement, motion, etc. The “window” is that which James Stewart’s character, stuck in his apartment with a broken leg, has become fixated looking out at as he reads the stories of his neighbors, going as far as convincing himself (and his girlfriend) (and his nurse) that a neighbor has murdered his wife. The thing that caught my attention was how much telling Hitchcock creates with just [...]
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