i'm a little dismayed by the turn the contributions to this thread have been taking . . . i would have thought that the original query focused on the "ghost" as a representation of a very specific thematic: the liminal, the uncanny, the over-the-rainbow . . . in other words the ghost as figuring something roughly in the neighborhood of the transcendent or sublime now certainly there are many ghosts that do not do this work at all -- caspar being just the most obvious instance . . . i suspect that listing every movie ever made with a ghost in it serves no purpose in helping to come to terms with what is at stake is using this trope mike ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]