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Jane Campion : authorship and personal cinema / Alistair Fox

Author
Fox, Alistair
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 269 pages) : illustrations
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English.
Contents
Introduction: authorship, creativity, and personal cinema -- Origins of a problematic: the Campion family -- The "tragic underbelly" of the family: fantasies of transgression in the early films -- Living in the shadow of the family tree: Sweetie -- "How painful it is to have a family member with a problem like that": authorship as creative adaptation in An angel at my table -- Traumas of separation and the encounter with the phallic other: The piano -- The misfortunes of an heiress: The portrait of a lady -- Exacting revenge on "cunt men": Holy smoke as sexual fantasy -- "That which terrifies and attracts simultaneously": Killing daddy in the cut -- Lighting a lamp: loss, art, and transcendence in The water diary and Bright star -- Conclusion: theorizing the personal component of authorship.
Summary
Alistair Fox explores the dynamics of the creative process involved in cinematic representation in the films of Jane Campion, one of the most highly regarded of contemporary filmmakers. Utilizing a wealth of new material -- including interviews with Campion and her sister and personal writings of her mother -- Fox traces the connections between the filmmaker's complex background and the thematic preoccupations of her films, from her earliest short, Peel, to 2009's Bright Star. He establishes how Campion's.
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ISBN
9780253000873 (electronic bk.)
0253000874 (electronic bk.)
128323579X
9781283235792
9786613235794
6613235792
9780253356185
0253356180
9780253223012
0253223016
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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