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Piano lessons : approaches to The piano / [edited by] Felicity Coombs and Suzanne Gemmell.

Title
Piano lessons : approaches to The piano / [edited by] Felicity Coombs and Suzanne Gemmell.
Publication
Sydney, NSW : John Libbey, ©1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Coombs, Felicity
  • Gemmell, Suzanne
Description
xvi, 175 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.
Summary
A collection of essays examining Jane Campion's film "The Piano" from a range of differing perspectives, including: auteurist; feminist; psychoanalytic; post-colonial; melodrama; and romance. The text also views the film as a major cinematic achievement and a complex cultural product.
Series Statement
Southern screen classics ; 1
Uniform Title
Southern screen classics ; 1.
Subject
  • Campion, Jane, 1954- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Campion, Jane, 1954-
  • Piano (Motion picture : 1993)
  • Piano (Film cinématographique)
  • Piano (Motion picture)
  • Piano <Film>
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Jane Campion is a New Zealand director and writer.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Gender, psychoanalysis, melodrama (Performing The piano / Ruth Barcan & Madeleine Fogarty ; WIth choices like these, who needs enemies? : The piano, women's articulations, melodrama & woman's film / Neil Robinson -- Female sexuality, creativity, & desire in The piano / Richard Allen ; The sickness unto death : dislocated Gothic in a minor key / Kirsten Moana Thompson) -- Cultural studies (In the body of The piano / Felicity Coombs ; Tempestuous petticoats : costume & desire in The piano / Stella Bruzzi) -- Post colonial studies & issues of nation (The return of the repressed? : whiteness, femininity & colonialism in The piano / Lynda Dyson ; From land escape to bodyscape : images of the land in The piano / Laurence Simmons ; A land without a past : dreamtime & nation in The piano / Anna Neill ; Birth of a nation? : from Utu to The piano / Bridget Orr) -- Diary (Cutting it fine : notes on The piano in the editing room / Claire Corbett).
ISBN
  • 1864620358
  • 9781864620351
LCCN
00303018
OCLC
44131904
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library