The Complexities of Spectatorship: Reviewing Rear Window

This Film as Text by Jay Daniel Thompson on Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) asserts that the film is best understood as a film about spectatorship. We need to ask: what exactly does the main character – and by extension the viewer – see? How does he/we react to this? What does he not see? Are the female characters simply there to be 'looked at'?