What Is Masculinity In Rear Window

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Rear Window (1954), a picture on vouyerism, Hitchcock positions the film in the American cultural context of the postwar masculinity, class struggle and gender roles. Lisa the high-society model is pitted against the maternal nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter) from the working class world. Lisa moulds herself to suit Jeffries’ desire, dress and behaves accordingly. She is an active woman who later becomes a sleuth and unintensionally helps Thorwald to find Jeffries’ postion which leads to a fight and later a broken leg. Lisa is actually a double threat to Jeffries masculinity both in her ultrafeminine costume and her guise as an action woman. Both paralyses Jeffries both physically and mentally with anxiety about his masculinity. The film

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