As the credits roll we see the blinds of a three pane window slowly being raised, once they have finished the camera moves forward, revealing to our gaze the reality on the other side of the open window. window. It faces the rear of many other buildings, the courtyard they surround, and a partial side street view. More importantly, it faces many other similar windows. Behind each of them, there are people going about their daily lives, carrying out mundane tasks, without realizing that they are being observed. In his 1954 film “Rear Window,” Alfred Hitchcock invites us to observe the lives of others without guilt. The main character, photographer LB Jefferies, is stuck at home with a broken leg encased in a hip-length cast, which provides him with the perfect excuse to have fun during this hot Manhattan summer by indulging in the seemingly harmless act of looking out of the many windows he can see from his back apartment. Casual, harmless voyeurism has been a part of human behavior for ages, but in the sixty years since the film's release, it has grown in popularity. Reality TV, movies, television shows, YouTube, blogs, Instagram, and Facebook are examples of modern tools that allow us to engage in the observation of others while remaining protected from their returning gaze. Essentially, the casual voyeuristic actions we engage in while observing others while using these new media tools follow the same pattern of behavior depicted in the film, with the same positive and negative consequences. Casual voyeurism is distinguished from pathological voyeurism, which is characterized by a preference for obtaining sexual gratification solely by spying on others, by removing the sexual component from the equation...... middle of paper ......ericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental 8.1 (2005): 1-13.Dumas, Chris. “The Žižekian thing: a disciplinary blind spot. » Critical Inquiry 37.2 (2011): 245-264. Gartenberg, Jon. “An eye on cinema: the photographer as voyeur.” MoMA 2.4 (1990): 5+22. Metzl, Jonathan M. “Voyeur Nation? Changing definitions of voyeurism, 1950-2004.” Harvard Review Psychiatry 12 (2004): 127-131. Nabi, Robin L., et al. “Reality-based television programming and the psychology of its appeal.” Media Psychology 5 (2003): 303-330. Ohh, Kevin. “Voyeurism and Annunciation in Almodovar’s “Talk to Him”.” Critique 51.4 (2009): 521-557. Rowe, Lawrence. “Through the Looking Glass: Reflexivity, Reciprocity, and Defenestration in Hitchcock’s “Rear Window.” » Academic Literature 35.1 (2008): 16-37. Toles, George E. “Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window as Critical Allegory.” Limit 16.2/3 (1989): 225-245.