Clues (2013) - "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts": Voyeurism and the Spectacle of Human Suffering in Rear Window

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• article: "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts": Voyeurism and the Spectacle of Human Suffering in Rear Window
• author(s): Nicholas Andrew Miller
• journal: Clues (01/Apr/2013)
• issue: volume 31, issue 1, page 45
• journal ISSN: 0742-4248
• publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc
• keywords: Ethics, Film adaptations, Motion picture criticism, Motion pictures, Novellas

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Abstract

Rear Window offers a powerful meditation on the ethical implications of private voyeurism in the public sphere. The film draws thematic inspiration from Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts, appropriating the novella's title to designate a key minor character and to herald Hitchcock's trenchant investigation of human suffering and "rear window ethics." [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]