The little white attic

I know, I’ve written 6 posts about Henry James’s book, but here’s a 7th.  There are a few points I’m uncertain about:  1/ From chapter 5: ...

I’ve been reading the analyses in the Norton edition of The Turn of the Screw . Readers mostly fall into 2 camps:  1) The ghosts exist, an...

1/ I have written several blog posts about why the governess is an unreliable narrator and a liar, with an overactive imagination and perhap...

I’ve just come across this ranking: https://hyperallergic.com/425499/48-ingmar-bergman-films-ranked/   I don’t agree, of course. So here’s ...

In the previous post, I called the governess an unreliable narrator.  Now I’m going to call her a liar.  Look at this conversation between...

I’ve said it.  Take this passage from chapter 14:  ““Look here, my dear, you know,” he charmingly said, “when in the world, please, am I ...

“It was striking of the children, at all events, to kiss me inveterately with a kind of wild irrelevance and never to fail—one or the other...

For the holiday, I’m reading The Turn of the Screw . Note that I have seen Jack Clayton’s adaptation The Innocents .  Are the ghosts real? ...

1/ Losing my grandma:  In April.  Before, my family was only her and my mom. Now she’s gone.  This is a short film I made in the summer a...

My 1st video essay, about how to film a dialogue scene and what Ingmar Bergman did in Persona .  Also: what if Persona had been cut the con...