TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fox, Alistair.
TI  - Jane Campion: authorship and personal cinema 
SN  - 9780253356185 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PN1998.3.C3545 F69 2011
U1  - 791.430233092B 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Campion, Jane,
KW  - Women motion picture producers and directors
KW  - New Zealand
N1  - Jane Campion is a New Zealand filmmaker; Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-262) 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
N2  - "Alistair Fox explores the dynamics of the creative process involved in cinematic representation in the films of Jane Campion, one of the most highly regarded of contemporary filmmakers. Utilizing a wealth of new material--including interviews with Campion and her sister and personal writings of her mother--Fox traces the connections between the filmmaker's complex background and the thematic preoccupations of her films, from her earliest short, Peel, to 2009's Bright Star. He establishes how Campion's deep investment in family relationships informs her aesthetic strategies, revealed in everything from the handling of shots and lighting, to the complex system of symbolic images repeated from one film to the next"--Publisher description
ER  -