The Turn of the Screw adaptations and reworkings in a variety of media, and these reworkings and adaptations have, themselves, been analysed in the academic literature on Henry James and neo-Victorian culture. It was adapted to an opera by Benjamin Britten, which premiered in 1954, and the opera has been filmed on numerous occasions. The novella was adapted as a ballet score (1980) by Luigi Zaninelli, and separately as a ballet (1999) by Will Tucket for the Royal Ballet. Harold Pinter directed "The Innocents" (1950), a Broadway play which was an adaptation of "The Turn of the Screw", and a subsequent eponymous stage play, adapted
The Turn of the Screw "Através da Sombra" ("Through the Shadow", 2016). "The Others" (2001) is not an adaptation but has some themes in common with James's novella. In 2018, director Floria Sigismondi filmed an adaptation of the novella, called "The Turning", on the Kilruddery Estate in Ireland. Television films have included a 1959 American adaptation as part of "Ford Startime" directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Ingrid Bergman; the West German "Die sündigen Engel" ("The Sinful Angel", 1962), a 1974 adaptation directed by Dan Curtis, adapted by William F. Nolan; a French adaptation entitled "Le Tour d'écrou" ("The Turn of the Screw", 1974); a