Review: The Piano by Jane Campion, Jan Chapman

Harvey Greenberg

doi:10.2307/1212959

Review: The Piano by Jane Campion, Jan Chapman

Film Quarterly ◽

10.2307/1212959 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 46-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Harvey Greenberg

Keyword(s):

Jane Campion

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Creativity as a Haven: An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990)

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429443.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Alistair Fox

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

New Zealand ◽

Coming Of Age ◽

Main Character ◽

Personal Investment ◽

Jane Campion

Through a comparison with Janet Frame’s Autobiography, from which it is adapted, this chapter analyses Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table as the first New Zealand film to present all three of the main maturational phases characteristic of the coming-of-age genre, but as experienced by a Pākehā girl. Identifying the effects of a repressive environment as the source of the emotional stresses that lead the main character, Janet, to be institutionalized for schizophrenia, the discussion shows how she finds respite in fictive creativity and a world of the imagination. It also shows Campion’s personal investment in the story as a displaced representation of her own mother’s fight with mental illness.

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Le « devenir femme » dans le cinéma de Jane Campion. La leçon de piano

Du cinéma à la psychanalyse, le féminin interrogé ◽

10.3917/eres.mosco.2013.01.0059 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 59

Author(s):

Olivia-Rebecca Lustman

Keyword(s):

Jane Campion

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Portraits Perversely Framed: Jane Campion and Henry James

Film Quarterly ◽

10.1525/fq.2002.56.2.14 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 14-24

Author(s):

Rebecca M. Gordon

Keyword(s):

Henry James ◽

Social Systems ◽

Gender Ideology ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Mass Audience ◽

Portrait Of A Lady ◽

Jane Campion ◽

Sexual Desires

Critics who disliked Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996) suggest she was wasting her talents on a high-budget adaptation in order to reach a mass audience. Yet Campion does not adapt Henry James's novel so much as interpret it. By boldly dramatizing the unconscious sexual desires that riddle James's melodramatic novel, Campion exposes the spaces where traditional gender ideology fails, loosening the gender codes upon which the pleasure of melodrama rests. The result is a feminist narrative that is attractive to the mainstream but also capable of leading the audience to consider social systems in place beyond the theater.

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