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John Belton (academic)

• with Elisabeth Weis (1985). Film Sound: Theory and Practice. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-05636-6.
• "Widescreen Cinema". Harvard Film Studies. November 1992.
• "Cinema Stylists". Filmmakers (2). May 30, 1995.
• Movies and Mass Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8135-2227-2.
• Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-521-56423-6.
• American Cinema/American Culture. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1994. ISBN 978-0-07-004466-1.
• Belton, John (Fall 2003). "Can Hitchcock Be Saved from Hitchcock Studies?" (PDF). Cineaste. 28 (4): 16–21. ISSN 0009-7004.

Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window[edit]

Alfred Hitchcock's film Rear Window (1954) is a thriller starring James Stewart as Jeffries, an action-seeking photographer who is chair-ridden due to his fast-paced career, and Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont, Jeffries' ritzy, high-fashion love interest. Jeffries' boredom forces him to spy on his neighbors all day and night, which leads him and Lisa to find themselves in the middle of a shifty scandal suspecting their neighbor to be a murderer.

In his book Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Belton addresses the underlying issues of voyeurism, scopophilia, patriarchy, and feminism that are evident in the film. He states: "Rear Window's story is 'about' spectacle; it explores the fascination with looking and the attraction of that which is being looked at."^[4] Generally, Belton's book proves that there is more to Hitchcock's thriller than what initially meets the eye. These issues that society faces today are all more than just present in the film; they are emphasized and strengthened.^{[citation needed]}

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