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In ¡§Looking Awry¡¨, Zizek states that Rear Window is ¡§ultimately the story of a subject who eludes a sexual relation by transforming his effective impotence by means of the gaze, by means of secret observation. ... Each window represents a different film screen and just as Jeff identifies with the individuals within each apartment, the audience is trapped inside his point of view and is forced to identify with him. ... According to Belton, the set design in Rear Window reproduces these conditions of spectatorship. ... This position of the spectator in Rear Window is rather unique. ... Zizek argues that Jeff looks through the window to ¡§see on display a multitude of imaginary solutions to his actual impasse. ... Each window Jeff observes contains a plot, which portrays a different view of marriage. ...
It is interesting how Lisa¡¦s role changes after Jeff managed to convince her of his accusation, which in turn adds another gazer to the rear window. ... This distance between the surveillant and surveilled, the watcher and the watched, allows the audience to view almost all of Rear Window from the voyeurs eyes. ... As François Truffaut notes when interviewing Hitchcock about his intentions in Rear Window, ¡§We¡¦re all voyeurs to some extent¡K and James Stewart is exactly in the position of a spectator looking at a movie.
Approximate Word count = 1237
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