Analysis Of Rear Window

In other words, the higher class creates the beliefs on how the rest of the lower classes should be seen or what ideals they should follow. The lower classes do this to themselves to reinsure their nature of national identity. Cinema is used as an ideological apparatus. Hollywood puts their ideals on the screen and renders them invisible. Such ideologies that are on the screen are heterosexual and it is embedded in almost every genre. Other ideals consist of social class of an individual, the gender of the individual and the age. There are two states of apparatus that are spread ideologically on screen. The first is repressive, discriminates other people to in oppressive state, such as laws that discriminate against certain groups. Second is, Ideological state apparatus, covertly spreads ideologies such as family, church and school. Hitchcock uses the reality effect in Rear Window to draw the audience more into the cinematic experience. He does so by making the protagonist look through the lens of his camera to view his neighbors and look inside their apartment and how they live their daily lives. By doing so, we see the world through Jefferies eyes and he himself becomes part of the audience. While viewing every apartment window we see how people live in their natural state and give the film a sense of realism. Each window shows what life was like, living in America in 1950. Each character represents different social classes. As Jefferies lens focuses on apartment complexes across the alley, it displays a capitalistic view of the tenants. On the top floor lives a hard working pianist in what appears to be apartment house suite with the great view and accompanied by other people that look well kept and pampered. His social standin...

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...to her. Films by today’s standards have the female character equal to the male character. The patriarchal ideology would be non-existent. In the end, Rear Window shows ideologies that today’s society would be opposed to. The Ideology of voyeurism though might be for a good cause, can be punishable by law or by society. Interfering in somebody’s life comes with a price. Jefferies peeped into the neighborhood out of curiosity and ended up obsessed over a particular neighbor that almost costing him and Lisa’s life. With society changing, neighborhoods have become a mesh of different cultures and are dominantly minorities. People would think of a pure white society as a discriminatory one. The patriarchal ideology is not visible in the film and changing it to a more feminist movie. The film had Jefferies be the secondary character to Lisa as she drives the plot further.