Carolyn Jenkins is a voracious consumer of film and television. She graduated from Long Island University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Producing where she learned the art of character, plot, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear ...

James Stewart stars in ‘Rear Window’ (1954). Grace Kelly, left, and James Stewart star in 'Rear Window' (1954). Raymond Burr stars in 'Rear Window' (1954). James Stewart stars in ‘Rear Window’ (1954).

Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller, captured many of the social anxieties of the Cold War era: paranoia, suspicion, surveillance. But it also ventured, on celluloid, into controversial ...