Editing Rear Window (section)

===Analysis===
''Rear Window'' is filmed almost entirely within Jeff's apartment and from his near-static [[Point-of-view shot|point-of-view]] at his window. In [[Laura Mulvey]]'s essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," she identifies what she sees as [[voyeurism]] and [[scopophilia]] in Hitchcock's movies, with ''Rear Window'' used as a prime example of how she sees cinema as incorporating the [[Patriarchy#Feminist theory|patriarchy]] into the way that pleasure is constructed and signaled to the audience. Additionally, she sees the "[[male gaze]]" as especially evident in ''Rear Window'' in the portrayal of characters such as the dancer "Miss Torso", who is a spectacle for both Jeff and the audience (through his substitution) to enjoy.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Mulvey |first=Laura |url=https://academic.oup.com/screen/article-abstract/16/3/6/1603296?redirectedFrom=fulltext |title=Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema |journal=[[Screen (journal)|Screen]] |year=1975 |volume=16 |issue=3 |publication-date= 1975 |pages=6–18|doi=10.1093/screen/16.3.6 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In his 1954 review of the film, [[François Truffaut]] suggested "this parable: The courtyard is the world, the reporter/photographer is the filmmaker, the binoculars stand for the camera and its lenses."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Truffaut|first=François|title=The Films in My Life|publisher=Diversion Books|year=2014|isbn=978-1-62681-396-0|location=New York, NY|pages=123}}</ref>