This piece brings up an interesting point regarding voyeurism. I never thought of the idea of receiving pleasure from watching someone without them knowing; the idea of looking through a lens or a window into someone else’s life can give someone a sense of control for the voyeur, and at the same time give a sense of insecurity for the person being watched on. Rear Window uses the courtyard as a common ground for neighbours to freely interact with one another; it’s supposed to give a sense of safety and warmth as everyone is super friendly with one another. However,

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In this reading material, the author examines the voyeur as symbolic characters of the surveillance city state and analyzes the the social phenomena behind this by applying three films: Rear Window, Silver, and The End of Violence. The way how the author relates the three films is impressive. Through windows, camera lens, or the screen, mysteries and entanglements were progressively unveiled. Desire for power, control, pleasure, and truth behind murders became the original enticement for surveillance. I was intrigued by the concept “panopticon”, which the author introduces at the beginning of this chapter and is appeared several times when relating

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After the reading of of Nezar AISayyad, I would like to talk about the extent and aspects in which cinema and film are influencing our lives. The story in the reading is quite interesting and wired, the main character Jeff uses his binocle to observe his neighbors everyday, and accidently discover the clues of a murder. It is a story that we are not quite familiar with because we usually do not see anybody spying cause it is kind of illegal, but the story help us to think in director’s view, and the view of characters, that can help us,

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The two article address how “voyeur” and “flaneur” applied in movie. The first article uses the movie” Rear Window” in 1954 to explain. Watching people watching people’s life is the idea of being seen, and that’s the lens of a movie. We have discussion is class whether in nowadays for example reality TV shows match the idea of “ being  seen”? and how is the security of our life being affected. For the second article, we also discussed by “ Walking in the city”, we experienced stories by reading to people and seeing things. Thats the concept of different perspective

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