Rear window spectatorship
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that scopophilia thing a
description
Spectatorship in Rear Window- different to Disturbia
Transcript of Rear window spectatorship
It’s that scopophilia thing again!
Key termsThe Gaze
Objectification
Identification
Voyeurism
Scopophilia
_________ is an attitude that regards a person as a commodity or as a thing personal use, with little or no regard for a person's personality or sentience.
__________is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviours, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other activities usually considered to be of a private nature
This term was used by cinema psychoanalysts of the 1970s to describe pleasures (often considered pathological) and other unconscious processes occurring in spectators when they watch films.
Seeing something and wanting to be it
Where the camera follows
and lingers and the point of view of the character. In
Rear Window this is always Jeffries or us.
The Gaze
First time Lisa is on screen
The Gaze
Objectification
Jeff watches women from the window
Voyeurism & Socophilia
Lisa breaks into the flat
