How Does Hitchcock Create Suspense In Rear Window

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Rear Window is a suspense film produced by Paramount Pictures in 1954. This film is directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Rear Window is said to be one of Hitchcock’s greatest films. Hitchcock received four academy award nominations for Rear Window. This film highlights star actors such as, Grace Kelly (Lisa Carol Fremont), James Stewart (L.B. Jeffries), Thelma Ritter (Stella), Raymond Burr (Lars Thorwald), and Wendell Corey (Thomas J. Doyle). The film takes place in urban apartment housing, where L.B. Jeffries is stationed in his wheelchair with a broken leg. During his time stranded, he spies out of his window and he makes a crucial observation. Together Jeffries, Stella (Jeffries’s nurse), and Lisa Carol Fremont (Jeffries’s girlfriend), investigate …show more content…
Towards the end of the film Hitchcock, employs the use of audio to build up the suspense. In this scene Jeffries is alone in his dark apartment facing the window, and he receives a call from an unknown person who remains silent. Hitchcock employs the element of silence to build the anticipation among his audience. As the scene progresses, a crash along with increasingly louder footsteps pierces the silence, and puts the viewers on the edges of their seats not sure what to expect next. As well as audio, Hitchcock makes use of consequential camera work. As the crash interrupts the silence of Jeffries apartment, a close up shot of Jeffries is used. Hitchcock exploited the use of a close up to show the apprehension and fear on Jeffries face. As Hitchcock’s audience gets a glimpse of Jeffries emotion, the camera switches to a shot of the door to give the viewers a glance into Jeffries’s point of view. Hitchcock then moves back to a close up of Jeffries and focuses on the slow movement of the wheelchair, to build suspense. Then Hitchcock pans to a low angle shot of the apartment door to reveal the light in the hallway extinguishing. This conveys a feeling of mistrust, and uncertainty to
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