Losing Innocence: A Comparative Analysis of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and Jack Clayton’s film adaptation, The Innocents

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English

 

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Beverly H

 

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June 25, 2011

 

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University

 

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Movies are almost never an exact match to the text from which they are taken; they are merely the director’s vision of that text. Creating an adaptation of The Turn of the Screw is made all the more difficult by the seemingly infinite positions that can be taken. In 1961, Jack Clayton directed what is still known as the definitive cinematic version of James’s ghostly tale: The Innocents...
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His artistic vision of the events at Bly, combined with a skillfully designed script by legendary screenwriters William Archibald and Truman Capote, creates a chilling visual look into the psychological terror of James’s literary classic. It is also a somewhat imperfect one. James presents The Turn of the Screw as the manuscript of the governess’s recollections, transcribed, preserved and read twenty years after her death by Douglas, then retold years later by an unnamed narrator...
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