A critical companion to Jane Campion /
"A Critical Companion to Jane Campion offers an in-depth analysis of the director's work and offers an enriching view of the theoretical, artistic, and cinematic dimensions of her films. Contributors draw on a variety of perspectives to provide innovative readings of Campion's oeuvre...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2025]
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| Series: | Critical companions to contemporary directors.
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Table of Contents:
- Vestigial remains : queens of the garden, angels of the house, and dutiful daughters in Jane Campion's Sweetie, An angel at my table, and Holy smoke! / Sue Matheson
- Gendered spaces in Jane Campion's Top of the lake and Top of the lake: China girl : female oppression and neutral community / Laura Benoît
- Poetic textures, Jane Campion's interrogation of gendered notions of creativity in Bright star / Anna Baccanti
- The feminine sublime in the work of Jane Campion / Helen Richardson
- Staging desire in Jane Campion's Portrait of a lady / Gilles Menelgado
- Perspective, dismemberment, and editing in In the cut / Wendy Haslem
- The mutability of the male body in the Piano (1993), Bright star (2009) and the Power of the dog (2021) / Ian Murphy
- Opening her third eye : Jane Campion's auteurial films during the post-Cold War decade / Catherine Cottle
- Antipodean multiplicities : hypotext and influence in Jane Campion's Dancing daze and Two friends / Blythe S Worthy
- Voiceless in the trees : postcolonial memory and the gothic in Jane Campion's Sweetie / Michael Modarelli
- The power of playing with genre : the Western gothic melodrama in Jane Campion's the Power of the dog / Hervé Meyer.