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The film's premise alone relies upon Jefferies operating as a dispassionate, then engaged, observer turned potential victim. When Hitchcock decided to make the act of watching Rear Window tantamount to fictional voyeurism, he turned all perceptions of the thriller on their heads. Jefferies sees a lot: the city's caught in a heat wave, so everyone has their windows open and their blinds raised.

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Confined to his Greenwich Village apartment, he passes his boredom-fueled days by watching his neighbors through his apartment's rear windows instead of turning on the TV like a sensible person. Jefferies ( the great Jimmy Stewart) entering yet another week of healing from a broken leg.

The danger was a lurking threat from the outside.Įnter Rear Window, which assumes the protagonist's direct point-of-view and makes the audience culpable in his spying habit. His camera emphasized their growing fear and heightened audience identification. Never one to ignore a chance to wring his audience's emotions out like a wet towel, Hitchcock had always created suspense the normal way: by placing his protagonists in danger. Rear Window was part of his late career renaissance: from 1954 to 1963 he churned out Dial M, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birdspractically back-to-back.

At this point in his career, Hitchcock had thoroughly earned his moniker of 'the Master of Suspense' through such swanky nail-biters as Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, Notorious, and Dial M for Murder.