Spirit of the Dead Watching her fear. Mathews says it is too simple to attribute Tehura's terror to her belief in spirits and irrational fear of the dark; she says, following Sweetman, that Gauguin's sexual predilections should not be ignored when trying to understand the work. Rather, she suggests the girl's fear was a response to Gauguin's aggressive behavior, consistent with his known battering (so says Mathews) of his wife Mette, the submissive fear in her eyes his erotic reward. Stephen F. Eisenman, professor of Art History at Northwestern University, suggests the painting and its narrative is "a veritable encyclopaedia of colonial racism and misogyny".
The Wages of Fear released on French VHS. The film is unique in that it won both the Golden Bear and the Palme d'Or. "Violent Road" (aka "Hell's Highway"), directed by Howard W. Koch in 1958, and "Sorcerer", directed by William Friedkin in 1977, are American remakes. The first is not credited as such. The second was described by the director as an adaptation of the original novel. The "Goon Show" episode "The Fear of Wages" was inspired by the 1953 film. The Wages of Fear The Wages of Fear () is a 1953 French-Italian thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Yves Montand,