The ‘Last Laugh’ is on Jeff: Murnau and Rear Window
HitchCon '22: Hitchcock in a Time of Crisis
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A comparison between screenshots from F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924) with Rear Window (1954) demonstrates that Hitchcock referenced Murnau to present the disintegrating ego of a war vet as the cultural memory of war fades.
Polly Thompson has worked as an editor and writer in Vancouver, Ottawa, Belleville and Toronto, first in newspapers and then in medical periodicals and research institutes. In 2015 and 2016 she presented at international conferences on Virginia Woolf and Lucy Maud Montgomery. Since 2017, her personal research interest has been Alfred Hitchcock. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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