‘Rear Window’ was originally published under the title ‘It Had to be Murder’ in Dime Detective in 1942 when detective fiction was highly popular. This is not an adaptation study but a study of two related texts side by side. Is it just a “casual unthinking act ”, as Jefferies suggests in the short story, or is it something less sinister and more instinctive in human nature, which Hitchcock profoundly ponders on in the film? This dissertation focuses on these questions with respect to the two texts mentioned. It is worth asking whether this makes us all voyeurs. Although voyeurism generally has pejorative connotations, the cinematic medium is voyeuristic by nature.
At the epicentre of Cornell Woolrich’s ‘Rear Window’ and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is the notion of voyeurism. People are filled with curiosities about themselves, their environment, and particularly about other people and what they do in their private lives. Human beings are undeniably curious by nature.
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