Rear window Analysis

Opening Scene
The opening starts off with the camera shooting out of a window. This can be seen as Jeff's perspective throughout the majority of the film.
The camera proceeds to explore what we can see through the window. We can see people being occupied in their own little worlds, or windows.
Eventually the camera returns to Jeff's room, and faces him. It is interesting to note that Jeff has his back faced to the window, rather than looking through out his own window.
We also find out his name through the writing on the cast on his leg. with the way it was written, his name can already be associated with death.
The camera also goes over the rest of his room. Here we can see photography of destruction. From only a few details, we can gather the idea that Jeff enjoys extreme sports - this possibly correlates to the genre of thriller.

• Panning and tilting in the neighborhood
• Urban city area - middle class setting - average
• Close-up of a middle-aged man
• Prespiring - closeup of a thermometer - summer time - windows are open - agitation
• Sees a man shaving - radio, grand piano - higher class
• Switches radio off , as it says - "are you in your 40s? Are you tired...?" - Does this mean that Jeff is in his 40s?
• Dancer - Miss Torso
• White pigeons on her roof - love metaphor?
• We are looking through the window - we're perverted, masculine - forced to see it in a male perspective.
• Alley way - kids playing
• Back to Jeff - we now know his name (L. B. Jefferies)
• Broken leg - makes the audience wonder how? - written like a grave stone - 'DEATH' - Jeff seems helpless
• Broken cameras lying around - broken memories or history? - Sports, explosions, bomb testing, negative print, magazine - female fashion.

Dead Dog Scene

What do we learn about the world of Rear Window?

Dogs are known creatures for holding overwhelming loyalty to humans. If we were to see dogs as symbols of loyalty and trust, the dead dog can be seen as a metaphor for broken loyalty and trust. As everyone rushes to their windows and balconies to see the deceased dog, they are witnessing the loss of that trust and loyalty.

Women is cynical - "Did you kill because he liked you"
 "People don't care" - dog is the only one that cares, and dies

We know where the guilty lives - only apartment that has no lights on.