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Book SynopsisHow personal experience is woven into a fi lmmaker's art
Trade ReviewIn his book, Alistair Fox finds and illuminates the relations between diegetic worlds and the life of a "New Zealand Australian", Jane Campion.
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This is easily the best, most comprehensive book now available on Campion and her work. . . . Highly recommended.September 2011
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Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Authorship, Creativity, and Personal Cinema
1. Origins of a Problematic: The Campion Family
2. The "Tragic Underbelly" of the Family: Fantasies of Transgression in the Early Films
3. Living in the Shadow of the Family Tree: Sweetie
4. "How painful it is to have a family member with a problem like that": Authorship as Creative Adaptation in An Angel at My Table
5. Traumas of Separation and the Encounter with the Phallic Other: The Piano
6. The Misfortunes of an Heiress: The Portrait of a Lady
7. Exacting Revenge on "Cunt Men": Holy Smoke as Sexual Fantasy
8. "That which terrifies and attracts simultaneously": Killing Daddy in In the Cut
9. Lighting a Lamp: Loss, Art, and Transcendence in The Water Diary and Bright Star
Conclusion: Theorizing the Personal Component of Authorship
Notes
Works Cited
Filmography
Index
