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Hitchcock's Rear window : the well-made film

Author: John Wesley Fawell; Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Fawell, John Wesley, 1959-
Hitchcock's Rear window.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2001
(OCoLC)606598607
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Wesley Fawell; Alfred Hitchcock
ISBN: 0809324008 9780809324002 080932606X 9780809326068
OCLC Number: 45583542
Description: 179 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
2. Rear Window's Unity: Freedom Through Constraint --
3. Escaping Jeff: Non-Point of View Shots --
4. Jeff, Hitchcock's Emasculated Hero --
5. Playing the Windows Game --
6. Playing the Windows Game 2: The Lonely Hearts --
7. The Feel of Loneliness --
8. Hitchcock's Self-Reflexivity --
9. Jeff as Hitchcock.
Responsibility: John Fawell.
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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." "Accessbile 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."--Jacket.

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