fig. 1 Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: James Stewart, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler, John Dall Year of release: August 23 1948 Alfred Hitchcock's audacious film 'Rope' is a sort of bridge between the worlds of film making and traditional theatre, giving the viewer a sort of interactive play with the camera serving as the viewers body. The film is shot in a way that makes it seem to have no cuts and tells the story of a sadistic murder and the bold dinner party held by the murderers whilst deriving pleasure from the knowledge that their victims body was always just out of sight. All of this to prove their "innate superiority" over " a victim who is inferior to them". (Roger Ebert, 1984) Fig. 2 The film does well to make the viewer feel as though they were invited to the dinner party being held and is, as Pamela Hutchinson put it " filmed excruciatingly close to real time" (The Guardian, 2012) , because after a time o...