| Abstract |
This paper analyzes the medium-length film Whistle and I’ll Come to You (Jonathan Miller, 1968) produced for the BBC, an adaptation of one of M R. James’ best-known ghost stories. It focuses on the key divergences between the film and the short story, particularly the emphasis on the loneliness of the main character and the estrangement of the surrounding spaces and objects that the film builds, which determines its own textual system. Through textual analysis, it studies how different spaces and objects inserted in a structural logic of repetition —sheets, a hotel canteen, a beach— lead to the transition from the restrictive interiority of the protagonist to the overwhelming entrance of an inexplicable exteriority in the form of a spectral apparition. All of this results in a horror narrative that explores the supernatural from the material. © (2025), (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona). All rights reserved. |
