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Rear Window: How Hitchcock Turned a Broken Leg Into Cinema's Sharpest Study of Watching
Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 thriller Rear Window rests on one radical formal choice: confining the camera almost entirely to a photographer's apartment and his own point of view. This close reading looks at how that restriction shapes the film's cinematography, color, sound design, and pacing, and at an uncomfortable question the film keeps circling back to.