An ankle queerly turned, or the fetishised bodies in Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library

Title: An ankle queerly turned, or the fetishised bodies in Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library
Creator: Rolls, Alistair
Relation: Textual Practice Vol. 29, Issue 5, p. 825-844
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2015.1024724
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: This article takes as its point of departure a fetishistic scene from the 2004 ITV television adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library in order to demonstrate (1) how fetishism itself is a form of adaptation and thus how adaptation functions fetishistically; (2) how the fetishism diaplayed in the 2004 adaptation of the The Body in the Library reflexively references a more primal fetishism at work in the 'original' text; and (3) how the body in ,The Body in the Library functions as a screen memory to disavow (both veil and reference) a primal, and otherwise purloined, body. Finally, it is argued that the diegesis proper of The Body in the Library is itself a screen memory, or adaptation, designed to mask the original, transgressive desire of Dolly Bantry.
Subject: Agatha Christie; <i>The Body in the Library</i>; adaptation; fetishism; transgression
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1340150
Identifier: uon:28405
Identifier: ISSN:0950-236X
Language: eng
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