John Belton is Professor Emeritus of English and Film at Rutgers University.
[1][2] Belton has served on the National Film Preservation Board, as chair of the Board of Editors of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and authored numerous books.
In 2005/2006, he was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue his study of the use of digital technology in the film industry.
[3] Alfred Hitchcock's film Rear Window (1954) is a thriller starring James Stewart as Jeffries, an action-seeking photographer who is chair-ridden due to his fast-paced career, and Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont, Jeffries' ritzy, high-fashion love interest.
In his book Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Belton addresses the underlying issues of voyeurism, scopophilia, patriarchy, and feminism that are evident in the film.