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Fawell, John

 
9780809326068: Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film
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ISBN 10 : 080932606X ISBN 13 : 9780809326068
Editeur : Southern Illinois University Press, 2004

Synopsis

In the process of providing the most extensive analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window to date, John Fawell also dismantles many myths and clichés 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 emphasizesa 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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À propos de l'auteur

John Fawell is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the College of General Studies, Boston University. He writes widely on film and literature, covering everything from classical literature to filmmakers such as Hitchcock, Jacques Tati, Eric Rohmer, and Blake Edwards.

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Éditeur
Southern Illinois University Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
080932606X
ISBN 13 
9780809326068
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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