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Jane Campion's The piano / edited by Harriet Margolis.

Title
Jane Campion's The piano / edited by Harriet Margolis.
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors
Margolis, Harriet Elaine.
Description
xiv, 204 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
This volume examines The Piano from a variety of critical perspectives, such as the representation of the Maori, the use of music, the portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship, and the film's significance in international cinema.
Series Statement
Cambridge University Press film handbooks series
Uniform Title
Cambridge film handbooks series.
Alternative Title
Piano
Subject
  • Campion, Jane
  • Piano (Motion picture : 1993)
Bibliography (note)
  • Filmography: p. 163-166,
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 191) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : "A strange heritage" : from colonization to transformation? / Harriet Margolis -- Music in The piano / Claudia Gorbman -- The last patriarch / Ann Hardy -- The piano, the animus, and colonial experience / John Izod -- Ebony and ivory : constructions of Maori in The piano / Leonie Pihama -- Foreign tunes? Gender and nationality in four countries' reception of The piano / Stephen Crofts.
ISBN
0521592585 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^^99021070^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library