{"product_id":"jane-campion-authorship-and-personal-cinema-paperback-softback-9780253223012","title":"Jane Campion; Authorship and Personal Cinema (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253223012","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJane Campion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAuthorship and Personal Cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlistair Fox (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253223012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 March 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 22 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.449 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In his book, Alistair Fox finds and illuminates the relations between diegetic worlds and the life of a \"New Zealand Australian\", Jane Campion.\"—\u003ci\u003e25fps.cz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This is easily the best, most comprehensive book now available on Campion and her work. . . . Highly recommended.September 2011\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Alistair Fox offers an impressively rich and thoroughly documented reading of Jane Campion's films. . . . [He] persuasively interprets them as working through the traumas of the artist's life. . . . Fox succeeds in resuscitating the biological author, giving us Jane Campion without the qualification of quotation marks around her name.\"—Barry Keith Grant, \u003ci\u003eBrock University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlistair 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, \u003ci\u003ePeel,\u003c\/i\u003e to 2009's \u003ci\u003eBright Star.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Authorship, Creativity, and Personal Cinema\u003cbr\u003e 1. Origins of a Problematic: The Campion Family\u003cbr\u003e 2. The \"Tragic Underbelly\" of the Family: Fantasies of Transgression in the Early Films\u003cbr\u003e 3. Living in the Shadow of the Family Tree: Sweetie\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 5. Traumas of Separation and the Encounter with the Phallic Other: The Piano\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Misfortunes of an Heiress: The Portrait of a Lady\u003cbr\u003e 7. Exacting Revenge on \"Cunt Men\": Holy Smoke as Sexual Fantasy\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"That which terrifies and attracts simultaneously\": Killing Daddy in In the Cut\u003cbr\u003e 9. Lighting a Lamp: Loss, Art, and Transcendence in The Water Diary and Bright Star\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Theorizing the Personal Component of Authorship\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Filmography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52526019510552,"sku":"9780253223012","price":17.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/jane-campion-authorship-and-personal-cinema-paperback-softback-9780253223012","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}