Fox, Alistair.

Jane Campion authorship and personal cinema / [electronic resource] : Jane Campion : authorship & personal cinema Alistair Fox. - Bloomington [Ind.] : Indiana University Press, c2011. - xii, 269 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

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.


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Campion, Jane, 1954- --Criticism and interpretation.


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