James Stewart, the main protagonist of the film Rear Window, by Alfred Hitchcock, focuses specifically on his neighbor across the street, who he later suspects is a murderer. I thought Hitchcock was particularly effective in expressing this view, both thought the character and his decisions as a director. The gaze is obviously a male dominated one, especially for the time in 1954, but in this film I feel it exists mainly to develop Stewart's character. His gaze, as the film progresses, often looks upon female roles as a display where some of the females stand out more than the man. Often times a light will be brighter on the women, or you could see the character played by Stewart's eyes glance over to the room of the beautiful women across the street.

       As far as characterization goes, Stewart wasn't the only person involved in what some of the characters may have said was a voyeuristic crime, but also the women accompanying him were caught in his gaze. The only difference was that they weren't looking at the other women, but would comment on the men doing so frequently stating that some of the men had issues. I thought that the film was metaphoric for how men treated women. In refutation from Stewart's character, he constantly commented on the problems of marriage, and 'not being ready for it.' Thus would result in his side long glances at the women in the neighborhood, which is even stated by his nurse that he is a, “window shopper.” These characterization's help the story move along, giving validity to the story, since the story was about a terrible men. It implies that men only want one thing and don't pay much attention to anything else.