Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and the paradoxes of privacy -- Seeing is believing: power and the gaze in Charles Dickens's The adventures of Oliver Twist -- The voyeur and the imperial gaze: Herman Melville's Typee -- Turning people into characters: Henry James's "In the cage" -- The politics of looking in/at Alfred Hitchcock's Rear window -- Can you guess how you'd look? Michael Powell's Peeping Tom -- What's bugging Harry? Francis Ford Coppola's The conversation -- Conclusion.

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