You just made me feel like a moron. I get what you're talking about now, but not when I read it last December (and I believe I also read it in a creative writing course). Scott On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Meryem C. Ersoz wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:01:30 -0500 Scott Hutchins <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > Aren't most films of _Turn of the Screw_ inappropriate for a young > > audience? > > Well, I seem to recall reading "A Rose for Emily" in eighth grade and did > not find ambiguously references to necrophilia too disturbing at that > age, so perhaps shaded references to incest are not necessarily > inappropriate to this age group either. I did not fully comprehend the > meaning of the story until I re-read it as an adult, but that does not > mean that reading it as an oblivious kid was a wasted effort. I gave it a > developmentally-appropriate reading at that time and didn't worry too much > about what meanings were lost on me. > > I think the question of what is "appropriate" for naturally curious > adolescents is pretty tricky. > > I was probably more damaged at that age by my secret, behind-closed-doors > reading of Sidney Sheldon's THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT than I might have > been slogging through James' thick prose. > > Come to think of it, now *there's* a book-to-film combo worthy of > re-consideration! Yow! > > Meryem Ersoz > University of Colorado-Denver > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.