The Object of Desire in Film Studies

Hitchcock is all about the gaze. The point of the gaze in rear window is when jeff sees the neighbor and they long ees, as this moment of what do you want from me? What is it that you desire? R so, so tod does say that thee kind of privileged medium of thinking about the gaze is film. And weat and we realize in this tracking shot, that that the apparent neutral objective shot from aboveo the scene below is actually the view of the birds. Indeed, the birds themselves are this kind of chaotic manifestation of the mother's desire.