Em Um Leitor de Hitchcock , Wood discute o tema da castração (significada pela perna quebrada e a câmera quebrada), e a reafirmação da potência através do ato de olhar, primeiro através dos olhos, depois binóculos , então um “enorme telescópio ereto”. Wood argumenta que Janela Traseira é sobre o casamento como castração do macho - então, uma mudança diferente na interpretação da sua pergunta (e leitura muito interessante).
Você também pode estar interessado na transcrição do documentário Ética da janela traseira . Inclui várias citações reveladoras de Wood que apoiam suas suposições em parte:
What I think is being shown here, seems to be one of the absolutely central themes of all Hitchcock's work. This goes right back to British period. It goes right through the American films. The terrible incompatibility of male and female positions, as they've been defined and have evolved within our culture.
The man's viewpoint is one thing. The woman's is always another. And with all this is the idea of romantic love, what Miss Lonelyhearts is longing for, what the newlyweds were expecting, what Lisa wants. Hitchcock's view of romantic love is extremely sceptical, to say the least.
I think one of Hitchcock's central concerns is the isolation of people within our society. The apartments reflect the sense that everybody is in a prison. Each person is in his or her own little prison. That all comes to a head, of course, in what I see as the crucial scene of the film, from this point of view anyway. The scene where the woman comes out on her balcony and sees her dog has been killed and accuses all the neighbours. It’s a kind of central statement, I think, in Hitchcock, is this whole idea of people not being able to reach out.
I think another of Hitchcock's concerns is the way in which people build these protective facades around themselves, and claim this as their identity. It's a way of defending themselves against the unpredictability and chaos... of life.
What the film eventually moves to at the end, is a kind of resolution of the Jefferies-Lisa relationship. A lot of people have found it cynical because Lisa, although she's dressed in adventure-type clothes, presumably ready to take off with Jefferies on some expedition, and is reading a book called "Beyond The High Himalayas" or something like that, puts it aside when she sees he's asleep and picks up Harper's Bazaar. It seems to me what Hitchcock is saying is not exactly cynical. It’s realistic. Male and female positions are, within the culture, incompatible, within the culture as it exists today. And to a great extent it exists now. Lisa is showing us, at the end, that she must retain a certain perspective of her own and interests of her own, that she will not abandon her own interests in life and her values in life for his. I think that's wonderful.