• Prapti Mittal
• Sangeeta Mittal

Rear Window has been one of the most acclaimed and discussed Alfred Hitchcock movies From voyeurism to the changing dynamics of the film industry at the beginning of the television age to a metaphor for films itself, Rear Window has raised numerous questions. This paper looks at Rear Window as a metaphor for surveillance and how the film creates an experimental staging of surveillance tactics. The film also compels a look at the different players involved in the surveillance machinery. The paper follows the methodology of contextualising those who are watching and those who are being watched because this sheds light on the motive and moral of the act of voyeurism. The paper discusses the ethics of surveillance discussed in Rear Window (or the lack thereof) and the relationship between the stakeholders in the said machinery. As Rear Window brings the irreconcilable dilemmas surrounding surveillance to the fore, the paper posits that it indicates the increasing duality and complexity in the information societies of today that mounts on both sides of the window, vision, spatiality and spectacle as the gap closes in on the act of sexual voyeurism and political surveillance, privacy and governance, technology and espionage and freedom and control.

Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window, Surveillance, Voyeurism, Lacanian gaze

"HITCHCOCK’S REAR WINDOW AS A METAPHOR FOR SURVEILLANCE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no.e253-e264, June-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106595.pdf

"HITCHCOCK’S REAR WINDOW AS A METAPHOR FOR SURVEILLANCE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no. ppe253-e264, June-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106595.pdf