Adapting Henry James to the Screen
Gender, Fiction, and Film

Raw shows how changing priorities have affected the ways in which Henry James's novels have been translated to the screen, looking at everything from The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady to The Wings of the Dove and The Haunting of Hell House.

Raw demonstrates that while several adaptations have critically engaged with the subject of gender relations, they have often ended up by reinforcing rather than questioning accepted norms. Yet, there are instances where individual directors and/or screenwriters have bucked the trend and directly engaged with what people understand by 'masculine' and 'feminine' behavior, thus focusing on how the notions of 'masculinity' and 'femininity' are socially constructed, not only in the societies represented on screen, but in the spectators' world as well. This book shows how changing priorities affected the ways in which James's novels were translated to the screen, and how they examined the theme of gender relations. Not only does this represent a new departure for adaptation studies (which hitherto has largely focused on issues of textual fidelity), but it is a particularly appropriate methodology for stu

Part 1 Acknowledgments Part 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1 Berkeley Square (1933) Chapter 4 2 The Lost Moment (1947) Chapter 5 3 The Heiress (1949) Chapter 6 4 I'll Never Forget You (1951) Chapter 7 5 The Innocents (1961) Chapter 8 6 The Nightcomers (1971) Chapter 9 7 Daisy Miller (1974) Chapter 10 8 On a Clear Day You and See Forever (1970) and Somewhere in Time (1980) Chapter 11 9 The Turn of the Screw (1974) Chapter 12 10 The Portrait of a Lady (1968) and The Golden Bowl (1972) Chapter 13 11 The Jolly Corner (1975) Chapter 14 12 The Europeans (1979) and The Bostonians (1984) Chapter 15 13 The Turn of the Screw (1989) Chapter 16 14 The Turn of the Screw (1992) Chapter 17 15 Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996) Chapter 18 16 The Wings of the Dove (1997) Chapter 19 17 Under Heaven (1998) Chapter 20 18 The Turn of the Screw (1995 and 1999) Chapter 21 19 The American (1998) Chapter 22 20 Washington Square (1997) Chapter 23 21 The House by the Cemetary (1981) and The Haunting of Hell House (1999) Chapter 24 22 Presence of Mind (1999) Chapter 25 23 The Golden Bowl (2001) Part 26 Conclusion Part 27 Bibliography Part 28 Index Part 29 About the Author