Governess confronts the Manor Hallway, Part 3
Dublin Core
Title
Governess confronts the Manor Hallway, Part 3
Description
Film stills (1:12:04) from The Innocents (1961), directed by Jack Clayton. The repetition and rhythm of the object hitting against another, paired with the suggestive words, surrounded by bedrooms, is a clear and extremely explicit reference to sexual acts and intercourse. This sequence is not only jarring and shockingly graphic in spite of not actually showing anything physically, it is made all the more perverse in context to the abuse which the audience and the governess know is dictating this act.
Creator
Jack Clayton
Source
1961
Publisher
Achilles Film Productions, 20th Century Fox
Format
Film Stills
Files
Citation
Jack Clayton, “Governess confronts the Manor Hallway, Part 3,” Things Terrible and Unguessable: The Turn of the Screw and the Visual Vocabulary of Gothic Horror, accessed May 3, 2024, https://thingsterribleandunguessable.omeka.net/items/show/18.