Research Catalog

Title

Jane Campion : cinema, nation, identity / edited by Hilary Radner, Alistair Fox, and Irène Bessière.

Publication

Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bessière, Irène.
• Fox, Alistair.
• Radner, Hilary

Description

xvi, 329 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

The contributors examine the characteristics and themes in Campion's oeuvre; her debt to New Zealand sources; her personal views of family dynamics; her place in the feminist filmmaking tradition; Campion's cinematic style to investigate the source of her cross-cultural and international appeal.

Series Statement

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Uniform Title

Contemporary approaches to film and television series.

Subject

Campion, Jane > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-320), filmography (p. 305-307), and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: an antipodean filmmaker in an international context / Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner -- Subjectivities and the construction of identity in Jane Campion's films. "In extremis": Jane Campion and the woman's film / Hilary Radner -- Her-land: Jane Campion's cinema, or another poetic of the inner sense / Muriel Andrin -- The Campions indulge in The audition / Harriet Margolis -- Campion-Keitel connections, a.k.a. "We are the piano" / Chris Holmlund -- Jane Campion and her sources. "I can really see myself in her story": Jane Campion's adaptation of Janet Frame's Autobiography / Lawrence Jones -- Puritanism and the erotics of transgression: the New Zealand influence in Jane Campion's thematic imaginary / Alistair Fox -- Portraits of a woman: Jane Campion and Henry James / Irène Bessière -- Jane Campion: adaptation, signature, autobiography / Kathleen A. McHugh -- Jane Campion's "Geographies". Jane Campion and the international theme: from The portrait of a lady to An angel at my table / Jean Bessière -- The suburb in Jane Campion's films / Rochelle Simmons -- From antipodean cinema to international art cinema / Raphaëlle Moine -- Viewers respond to Jane Campion. "Comme une invitation au voyage": French reception of Jane Campion, An angel at my table, and The piano / Simon Sigley -- "The piano is mine. It's mine." My (free association with) Jane Campion, or, the child in the spectator / Sue Gillett -- Jane Campion and the moral occult / Ann Hardy -- On viewing Jane Campion as an antipodean / Annabel Cooper.

ISBN

• 9780814334324 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0814334326 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008052804

OCLC

282963476

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library