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Select any ten year period that includes Rear Widow (1954), and that decade will have either Hitchcock nascar ticket s earlier experimental phase when he realized that his British filmmaking style was limited, or a later more stabilized style with almost nascar ticket all masterpieces. When discussing Rear Window, Hitchcock said during the 1962 interviews with Truffaut, I must have been very creative around nascar ticket that period. Tell him the batteries were well charged then. (1) Rear Window was one of the frequently cited films in developing feminist film theories of male gaze, voyeurism, and visual pleasure.
L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (Jimmy Stewart), a magazine photographer, is confined nascar ticket to his apartment because of a broken leg. He passes the time looking out his window at what is going on in the courtyard and neighboring apartments. Stella (Thelma Ritter) is the insurance company nurse who visits him. Lisa Freemont (Grace Kelly), a haute couture fashion model, who is involved in arranging shows for the latest Paris collections, is his love interest. Jeff suspects that a neighbor, Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr) murdered his wife. Lisa and Stella don t agree with Jeff at first, but then become very active in watching Thorwald and proving him guilty.
Jeffries describes Lisa with a Manhattan twist. She belongs nascar ticket to that rarified atmosphere of Park Avenue. nascar ticket You know. Expensive restaurants, literary cocktail parties...Can you imagine her tramping around the world with a camera nascar ticket bum who never has more than a week's salary in the bank? Many viewers in the audience nascar ticket could remember films with very harsh remarks about Park Avenue. In the 1936 screwball comedy My Man Godfrey , William Powell nascar ticket says to Carole Lombard, You belong to that unfortunate category, that I would call the Park Avenue brat, a spoiled child who s grown up in ease and luxury, who s always had her own way, and who s misdirected energies are so childish, that they hardly deserve the comment of a butler on his off Thursday. As luxury apartment and condominium towers were built across Midtown and the Upper East and West Sides, Park Avenue would start to lose the derogatory connotation. Buick would designate its top trim level Electra nascar ticket as the Buick Electra Park Avenue starting with the 1975 model. The name was so successful that the Electra was replaced with the Park Avenue for the 1991 to 2005 models.
In her second edition of The Women who Knew too Much , Tania Modleski describes the beginning of Rear Window as, The film opens with a camera panning the courtyard of a Lower East Side housing development (2) In one sentence she makes three mistakes. When Lisa went to Thorwald nascar ticket s building to get his name and address, she called Jeffries from a pay phone and gave the address as 125 West 9th Street. This puts the location in Greenwich Village. At the time of Rear Window s release, less than a decade after World War II, the Lower East side hadn t begun to shed its image of flop houses and soup kitchens on Bowery street, the bargain district on Orchard Street, closed on Saturdays, but with crowds filling the street on Sundays, and tenement buildings nascar ticket on most of the streets. It is highly unlikely that Hitchcock would have sent Grace Kelly in her gowns designed by Edith Head, to this part of the city. It wouldn t be until the mid-1960 s that artists, students, musicians, and hippies would accelerate the gentrification of the northern portion of the Lower East Side. The moniker East Village would be used by these residents to distinguish themselves from the rest of the Lower East Side. It would be another 30 years before other parts of the Lower East Side would start to become trendy. Greenwich Village had a different history that made it favorable for Rear Window . It was known as a Bohemian enclave of writers and artists before WWI, and by the time of Rear Window there were art galleries on 8th Street, coffee houses with poetry readings along McDougal Street, and avant-garde and improvisational theaters on Bleeker Street. The Village was the birth of the Beat Generation.
The set of Rear Window was not a housing development. One of the housing developments in Manhattan at the time of Rear Window would be Stuyvesant Town, a large public-private development between the city and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Championed by the controversial Robert Moses during the war, as an efficient method of slum clearance, the project gained momentum as a way to provide affordable housing to returning veterans. The 35 buildings nascar ticket of almost 9,000 apartments look almost identical. Another housing development would be the white brick Manhattan nascar ticket House, owned by the New York life Insurance Company. There were over 580 residential units in this mixed use complex. It filled nascar ticket an entire block on the Upper East Side, from Third Avenue to Second Avenue nascar ticket and 65th Street to 66th Street. It was two short blocks east of Lisa s rarified atmosphere of Park Avenue, and two blocks north of her apartment on 63rd Street. Grace Kelly was a resident nascar ticket of Manhattan House. Unlike these real estate developments, the buildings around the courtyard on Rear Window are different nascar ticket styles, brick colors, window sizes and other architectural details. One person or company typically didn t own all the buildings on a block like the set of Rear Window.
The south side of the courtyard is where Miss Lonely Hearts, Thorwald, the couple with the dog, and the two women who sunbathe on the roof live. The Sculptress and Miss Torso also live on this side, but in a separate and smaller building. The alley shows a portion of 9th Street and the restaurant where Miss Lonely Hearts will go. Through this alley we will see Thorwald walk to the left on his trips to the East River. This side of the courtyard is so important nascar ticket to the story that it is shown behind the opening credits, not as a still but as a moving image with activity on the street and in some of the apartments.
After the credits the camera tracks from the interior of the apartment to the window. A cut to a cat walking up cement steps is the start of the panning shot. Tania Modleski is wrong when she says the film opens with a panning shot. The panning shots give us more detailed information about the residents and where their six apartments on the south side are located. The path of the cat up the stairs and along a low wall will be the steps and the wall Lisa and Stella climb on their way to dig in Thorwald s garden. nascar ticket Looking out Jeffries s window, the Newlywed s apartment is on the left side and the Composer s apartment is on the right side. The panning shots orient us to these two additional apartments. To give such a panoramic view of the courtyard, Jeffries rear window is a bay window. The bay window gives Grace Kelly space to lay back, assume relaxed poses, and display Edith Head s magnificent gowns, and during the closing scene, neatly pressed blue jeans and a blouse, years before there were the words designer jeans .
When Thorwald s address was revealed, those in the audience familiar with how buildings in Manhattan are numbered knew that Jeffries rear apartment faces towards the lower street numbers and downtown. They would realize that Lisa s earlier remark, when she and Jeff were watching Miss Lonelyhearts imaginary dinner date, Oh, you can see my apartment from here, all the way up on 63rd Street? nascar ticket was not just disbelief because of distance. She was being outright factitious.
Lisa brought to Jeff s apartment a waiter from 21 with a catered lobster dinner. 21 continues to maintain arguably the strictest dress code in the city. In 2009 they gave up on their requirement to wear a tie. Their web site currently has, Please note that jeans and sneakers are not permitted. Jackets are necessary for gentlemen. Lisa tells Jeff about her busy schedule that day of arranging for fashion nascar ticket shows and meeting clients for cocktails. The cinematic references and images of cocktail parties, and meeting for drinks, especially by famous movie stars had quite an effect on impressionable adolescents of my generation. There seemed to be drinks all the time and cocktail parties that started in the late afternoon. New York had as Jeff put it, literary cocktail parties . In the post war period among the publishing nascar ticket companies located in Manhattan were Doubleday, Macmillan, Scribner's, Dell, Simon Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, Pantheon Books, and Random House. nascar ticket This was an era before media conglomerates, like Time Warner, Gulf+Western, Viacom, and an almost nonstop cycle of mergers and acquisitions.
The terms subjective and point of view shots are frequently used interchangeably. Rear Window nascar ticket shows some of the differences. Most of the point of view shots into the apartments around the courtyard are from Jeffries point of view. Typically the point of view shot is part of a three shot sequence. The first shot is of Jeffries looking at something. The second shot shows what he is seeing. And the third shot returns to Jeffries and shows his reaction. The sequence can be repeated with only two shots. When what Jeffries is seeing remains nascar ticket the same, the cut is directly from the reaction shot back to what he is seeing. When what Jeffries is looking at changes, the sequence can still be continued with two shots. When Jeffries sees Thorwald make his first return after the murder, during the reaction shot Jeffries eyes look to his right. The cut is to the Composer s apartment. When Jeffries is looking at Thorwald in the hallway, during the reaction shot Jeffries turns his head and neck to his left. There is a cut to the alley that reveals Thorwald leaving again. Jeffries nascar ticket head and eye movements are accurate to the location of the apartments. The s