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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Colombani, Elsa (Editor), Da Silva, Eurydice (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2025]
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.