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A province of many eyes – Rear window and caché: when the city discloses secrets through the cinema
In the city, all people see. In the city, all people are seen. The look and its related questions – what to see, as to see, the interpretation of what is seen – Is one of the central questions of the urban space since century XIX, with the growth of the cities and the phenomenon of the multitude. The look becomes, therefore, crucial to this urban man, whom it looks to recognize in this another one – the stranger – the signals of friendship or danger. This importance of the look in the city is investigated in this essay through two films: Rear window, Alfred Hitchcock (1954), and Caché, Michael Haneke (2005). In the first movie, the personages look the city. In the other, they are seen by this city. In the two films, we have the extremities of the same process: the social life transformed into spectacle. And the cinema, playing one of its main functions: the construction of representations of the human lives in the city.
A province of many eyes – Rear window and caché: when the city discloses secrets through the cinema
In the city, all people see. In the city, all people are seen. The look and its related questions – what to see, as to see, the interpretation of what is seen – Is one of the central questions of the urban space since century XIX, with the growth of the cities and the phenomenon of the multitude. The look becomes, therefore, crucial to this urban man, whom it looks to recognize in this another one – the stranger – the signals of friendship or danger. This importance of the look in the city is investigated in this essay through two films: Rear window, Alfred Hitchcock (1954), and Caché, Michael Haneke (2005). In the first movie, the personages look the city. In the other, they are seen by this city. In the two films, we have the extremities of the same process: the social life transformed into spectacle. And the cinema, playing one of its main functions: the construction of representations of the human lives in the city.
A province of many eyes – Rear window and caché: when the city discloses secrets through the cinema
Eliana Kuster (author)
2009
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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City , Cinema , Sight , Architecture , NA1-9428 , City planning , HT165.5-169.9
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