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Paperback. Series: Contemporary Film Directors. Num Pages: 184 pages, 26 photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
The subversive style of the woman who has become one of the world's greatest film directors From Jane Campion's early award-winning short films on through international sensation The Piano and beyond, Kathleen McHugh traces the director's distinctive visual style as well as her commitment to consistently renovating the conventions of \u0022women's films.\u0022 By refusing to position her female protagonists as victims, McHugh argues, Campion scrupulously avoids the moral structures of melodrama, and though she often works with the narratives, mise-en-sc\u00e8ne, and visual tropes typical of that genre, her films instead invite a distanced or even amused engagement. A volume in ... Read more
The subversive style of the woman who has become one of the world's greatest film directors From Jane Campion's early award-winning short films on through international sensation The Piano and beyond, Kathleen McHugh traces the director's distinctive visual style as well as her commitment to consistently renovating the conventions of \u0022women's films.\u0022 By refusing to position her female protagonists as victims, McHugh argues, Campion scrupulously avoids the moral structures of melodrama, and though she often works with the narratives, mise-en-sc\u00e8ne, and visual tropes typical of that genre, her films instead invite a distanced or even amused engagement. A volume in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Contemporary Film Directors
Condition
New
Weight
278g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252074479
SKU
V9780252074479
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Reviews for Jane Campion
This is an original, witty, and highly nuanced reading of Campion's films that takes into account a wide range of aesthetic and cultural influences on the filmmaker and her work. Wonderfully responsive to the films and informed by a non-dogmatic feminist sensibility, the book builds in power as it progresses. In sum: superb writing, superior scholarship, and stimulating
indeed, exciting
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indeed, exciting
to read. ... Read more