The metaphor of looking in Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window

Authors

  • José de Souza Martins Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v5i5-6p83-86

Keywords:

Photography, Everyday Life, Modern World, Cinema, Sociability

Abstract

Watched from the viewpoint of what is being seen, Hitchcocks’s film “Rear Window” is a rich documentary about everyday life in modern world. It bears in it a combination of the elements of fragmentary living: uncertainty, fear, solitude within sociability, the dramatic and the tragic. The hegemony of the passive and photographic eye, not well fit to the dilemmas of loving, tell us that look mediated by the camera is a metaphor of seeing in everyday life and of living.

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Author Biography

  • José de Souza Martins, Universidade de São Paulo
    Professor Associado do Depto. de Sociologia da FFLCH/USP

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Published

1996-03-30

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 5-6 (1996)

Section

Articles and Essays

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How to Cite

Martins, J. de S. (1996). The metaphor of looking in Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 5(5-6), 83-86. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v5i5-6p83-86