A Critical Companion to Jane Campion

Elsa Colombani, Eurydice Da Silva

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978783539
• Topic: Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas
• Subtopic: Películas y vídeos

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Inner Spaces
• Chapter 1: Vestigial Remains: Queens of the Garden, Angels of the House, and Dutiful Daughters in Jane Campion’s Sweetie, An A gel at My Table, and Holy Smoke!
• Chapter 2: Gendered Spaces in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake and Top of the Lake: China Girl: Female Oppression and Neutral Community
• Chapter 3: Poetic Textures: Jane Campion’s Interrogation of Gendered Notions of Creativity in Bright Star
• Chapter 4: The Feminine Sublime in the Work of Jane Campion
• Part II: Shifting Bodies
• Chapter 5: Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady: Staging Desire and Seduction, Fantasies and Reality
• Chapter 6: Perspective, Dismemberment, and Editing in In the Cut
• Chapter 7: The Mutability of the Male Body in The Piano (1993), Bright Star (2009), and The Power of the Dog (2021)
• Part III: Fluid Borders
• Chapter 8: Opening Her Third Eye: Protagonist and Auteurial Awakening in Sweetie, The Piano, and Holy Smoke!
• Chapter 9: Antipodean Multiplicities: Hypotext and Influence in Jane Campion’s Dancing Daze and Two Friends
• Chapter 10: Voiceless in the Trees: Postcolonial Memory and the Gothic in Jane Campion’s Sweetie
• Chapter 11: The Power of Playing with Genre: The Western Gothic Melodrama in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog (Netflix, 2021)
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors