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  • Seeing is Believing: Detective and Romance in Rear Window

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    Baker, David
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    Baker, David J.
    Year published
    2008
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    Abstract
    One of the many pleasures of watching Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) is that the viewer is required to continually readjust his or her sense of the relationship between what gendered characters say, what those characters see and how they react to what they've just seen. In this discussion I will consider this correlation between saying, seeing and reacting, focusing specifically on the way in which the relationship between Jeff (James Stewart) and Lisa (Grace Kelly) develops - through a conflict between a detective narrative and a romance narrative - as a kind of battle of the sexes which reaches, if not resolution, ...
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    One of the many pleasures of watching Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) is that the viewer is required to continually readjust his or her sense of the relationship between what gendered characters say, what those characters see and how they react to what they've just seen. In this discussion I will consider this correlation between saying, seeing and reacting, focusing specifically on the way in which the relationship between Jeff (James Stewart) and Lisa (Grace Kelly) develops - through a conflict between a detective narrative and a romance narrative - as a kind of battle of the sexes which reaches, if not resolution, at least a certain stability.
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    Journal Title
    Screen Education
    Volume
    51
    Issue
    SPRING, 2008
    Publisher URI
    http://www.atomvic.org/
    Copyright Statement
    © 2008 ATOM. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Film, Television and Digital Media
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/20875
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