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How The Best Horror Novella Was Adapted To Film

2023-05-31

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Ward, J. A. “The Ambiguities of Henry James.” The Sewanee Review, vol. 83, no. 1, 1975, pp. 39–60. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27542918

Palmer, James W. “Cinematic Ambiguity: James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ and Clayton’s ‘The Innocents.’” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 3, 1977, pp. 198–215. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43795561.

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Chase, Donald. “Romancing the Stones: Jack Clayton’s The Innocents.” Film Comment, vol. 34, no. 1, 1998, pp. 68–73. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43454554.

Kael, Pauline. “‘The Innocents’, and What Passes for Experience.” Film Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 4, 1962, pp. 21–36. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1211186.

Recchia, Edward. “An Eye for An I: Adapting Henry James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ to the Screen.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, 1987, pp. 28–35. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43796289.

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