Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2014) - The Traumatized Veteran: A New Look at Jimmy Stewart's Post-WWII Vertigo
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- article: The Traumatized Veteran: A New Look at Jimmy Stewart's Post-WWII Vertigo
- author(s): Colleen Glenn
- journal: Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2014)
- issue: volume 31, issue 1, pages 27-41
- DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2011.593957
- journal ISSN: 1050-9208
- publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
- keywords: Actors, Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays (1999) edited by Richard Allen & S. Ishii Gonzales, Alfred Hitchcock, Amy Lawrence, Doris Day, Grace Kelly, Hitchcock Chronology: 1938, Hitchcock Chronology: 1951, Hitchcock Chronology: 1955, James Naremore, James Stewart, John Belton, Lew Wasserman, London, England, Mission San Juan Bautista, California, Montgomery Clift, Motion pictures, New York City, New York, Portrayals, Rear Window (1954), Rebecca (1940), Richard Allen, Rope (1948), Sam Ishii-Gonzales, San Francisco, California, Tania Modleski, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The Women Who Knew Too Much (2005) by Tania Modleski, Vertigo (1958), Veterans, World War II
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Abstract
Glenn talks about film Rear Window. Jimmy Stewart's transition to darker and more troubled characters after World War II has been typically perceived as a necessary step in order to jumpstart his stalled career after the war.