Jane Campion
Subtitle: authorship and personal cinema
By: Alistair Fox
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780253356185; 9780253223012
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: authorship, creativity, and personal cinema; title: Origins of a problematic: the Campion family; title: The "tragic underbelly" of the family: fantasies of transgression in the early films; title: Living in the shadow of the family tree: Sweetie; title: "How painful it is to have a family member with a problem like that": authorship as creative adaptation in An angel at my table; title: Traumas of separation and the encounter with the phallic other: The piano; title: The misfortunes of an heiress: The portrait of a lady; title: Exacting revenge on "cunt men": Holy smoke as sexual fantasy; title: "That which terrifies and attracts simultaneously": Killing daddy in the cut; title: Lighting a lamp: loss, art, and transcendence in The water diary and Bright star; title: Conclusion: theorizing the personal component of authorship.