- 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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