Frames and Fools: Film, Filmmakers, and Foolishness

30 | ‘REAR WINDOW’, PARANOIA, & QUARANTINE JITTERS


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Stuck inside. Unable to leave. ‘Rear Window’ (1954) is the movie for our times. Jimmy Stewart plays Jeff, an adventure photographer confined to his apartment by a leg injury. He turns to the ongoing saga that is the inner courtyard and the lives of his neighbors for entertainment during a New York City heat wave, when a disturbing series of events catch his eye. This riveting movie taps into the voyeuristic side of human nature and the question begged by the dark side of paranoia: what if you’re right? We take a trip to Hitchcock’s America in Episode 30.

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Frames and Fools: Film, Filmmakers, and FoolishnessBy Skål Media

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