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The values of the illustration are kept dark and slurred, with wispy and overcast background elements pulling the silhouttes of the women to focus. The illustration serves as an example of Raleigh’s engagement with dread and anxiety, and the…
Title Treatment
Title treatment and header for the digital exhibition "Things Terrible and Unguessable: The Turn of the Screw and the Visual Vocabulary of Gothic Horror"
The governess sees Peter Quint in the tower
Film stills (29:12) from The Innocents (1961), directed by Jack Clayton. Viewers are pulled claustrophobically towards the governess' face, accentuating the fear and slow building dread evident in her expression and body language. Her position…
The governess investigates Bly Manor
Film stills (1:09:43) from The Innocents (1961), directed by Jack Clayton. The drawn out sequence wherein the viewer walks through the manor alongside the governess, accosted by spectral whispers and folie, creates complete immersion in the dread the…
The governess and Mrs. Grose observe the children whispering in secret
Film stills (1:01:26) from The Innocents (1961), directed by Jack Clayton. The governess and Mrs. Grose observe the children whispering in secret. The purity mother child dynamic is tainted by Miles and Flora's submissive and toying treatment of the…
Miss Jessel appears over the pond / The governess confronts Flora
Film stills (55:11 / 1:18:19) from The Innocents (1961), directed by Jack Clayton. While the governess is initially frightened of Miss Jessel, this is complicated as the film continues. She becomes influenced by the ghost and the implications that…
Miss Jessel appears before the governess in the classroom
Film stills (1:04:30) from The Innocents (1961), directed by Jack Clayton. The spirt of Miss Jessel appears before the governess in the children's classroom within the manor. The ghost is weeping, trapped in the domestic space that these women…
Liane Delorme, drawn up rigidly against the starboard partition near her stateroom door
A young woman in a dark dress and a necklace leans against a wall, her hands on her face.
Laura in Bed
The story of Carmilla follows the narration of a young woman who discovers that her close female companion and bond, Carmilla, is a vampire who has romantic desires for her. The novella is notable in that its tone is not hostile towards…
Governess confronts the Manor Hallway, Part 3
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…