Jane Campion

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Title:

Jane Campion

Author:

McHugh, Kathleen Anne.

ISBN:

9780252074479

9780252032042

Personal Author:

McHugh, Kathleen Anne.

Publication Information:

Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2007.

Physical Description:

xii, 186 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

Series:

Contemporary film directors

Series Title:

Contemporary film directors

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

[Pt. 1.] A vision so strange and strong -- Family -- Anthropology, art, and early influences -- Film school, global feminism, and friends -- The early films -- Seduction and conquest -- Discipline -- Moments -- Story -- Film feature narration and a new kind of feminism -- Sweetie: sisters and family trees -- An angel at my table: making oneself a "first person" -- The piano: surrealism, melodrama, and mimetic infection -- The portrait of a lady: from James to Jane -- Holy smoke: the uses and misuses of touch -- In the cut: adaptation, grief, and closure -- Coda -- [Pt. 2.] Interviews with Jane Campion.

Personal Subject:

Campion, Jane, 1954--Criticism and interpretation.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006036198.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0707/2006036198-d.html

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Summary

In considering Jane Campion's early award-winning short films on through international sensation The Piano and beyond, Kathleen McHugh traces the director's distinctive visual style as well as her commitment to consistently renovating the conventions of "women's films." By refusing to position her female protagonists as victims, McHugh argues, Campion scrupulously avoids the moral structures of melodrama, and though she often works with the narratives, mise-en-scene, and visual tropes typical of that genre, her films instead invite a distanced or even amused engagement.

Jane Campion concludes with four brief, revelatory interviews and a filmography. Campion spoke twice with Michel Ciment--after the screening of her short and medium-length films at the Cannes Film Festival 1986, and three years later, after the Cannes screening of Sweetie. Judith Lewis narrates a Beverly Hills interview with Campion that followed the release of Holy Smoke, and Lizzie Francke's interview, reprinted from Sight and Sound, centers on Campion's film In the Cut, adapted from Susanna Moore's novel.

A volume in the series Contemporary Film Directors, edited by James R. Naremore