A Critical Companion to Jane Campion
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A Critical Companion to Jane Campion offers a thorough and detailed study of the works of Jane Campion. This edited volume seeks a modern approach by blurring the frontiers between film and television, film theater releases, and platforms, and treats the entirety of Campion's her body of work as a meaningful whole. The chapters explore recurring themes and connections across Campion’s oeuvre, including her complex feminine characters, exploration of New Zealand landscapes, love for literature, constant dialogue between media, and the influence of the Gothic. Contributors draw on a variety of scholarly approaches, methodologies, and perspectives to provide innovative readings of Campion’s work that are sure to spark new discussions.
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Table of Contents
Sue Matheson
2. Gendered Spaces in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake and Top of the Lake: China Girl: Female Oppression and Neutral Community
Laura Benoît
3. Poetic Textures, Jane Campion’s Interrogation of Gendered Notions of Creativity in Bright Star
Anna Baccanti
4. The Feminine Sublime in the Work of Jane Campion
Helen Richardson
5. Staging Desire in Jane Campion’s Portrait of a Lady
Gilles Menelgado
6. Perspective, Dismemberment, and Editing in In the Cut
Wendy Haslem
7. The Mutability of the Male Body in The Piano (1993), Bright Star (2009) and The Power of the Dog (2021)
Ian Murphy
8. Opening her Third Eye: Jane Campion’s Auteurial Films during the Post-Cold War Decade
Katherine Cottle
9. Antipodean Multiplicities: Hypotext and Influence in Jane Campion’s Dancing Daze and Two Friends
Blythe S Worthy
10. Voiceless in the Trees: Postcolonial Memory and the Gothic in Jane Campion’s Sweetie
Michael Modarelli
11. The Power of Playing with Genre: The Western Gothic Melodrama in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog
Hervé Mayer
Product details
| Published | 25 Nov 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 250 |
| ISBN | 9781978783539 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Series | Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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