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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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Author:   Elsa Colombani ,  Eurydice Da Silva ,  Anna Baccanti ,  Laura Benoit
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781666933291

ISBN 10:   1666933295
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   03 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. 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 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 Catherine 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 Meyer

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Elsa Colombani is an independent scholar and film critic. Eurydice Da Silva is professor of screenwriting at Sorbonne Nouvelle University.

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