The Gaze of the Spectral Setting in the 1968 BBC Adaptation of M. R. James’s “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”

This article is a study devoted to the BBC adaptation of a ghost story by Montague Rhodes James, “Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad.” The ideas of the spectral gaze and sympathetic spectreship are used to submit that in the film the setting itself is the spectre, with which/whom the viewer is...

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Main Authors: Anne Keithline, Jacek Mydla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for Philosophical Research 2017-10-01
Series:Avant: Journal of Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard
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Online Access:http://avant.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/Keithline-Mydla-The-Gaze.pdf