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A Critical Companion to Jane Campion offers a thorough and detailed study of the works of Jane Campion. This edited volume seeks a modern approach by blurring the frontiers between film and television, film theater releases, and platforms, and treats the entirety of Campion's her body of work as a meaningful whole. The chapters explore recurring themes and connections across Campion’s oeuvre, including her complex feminine characters, exploration of New Zealand landscapes, love for literature, constant dialogue between media, and the influence of the Gothic. Contributors draw on a variety of scholarly approaches, methodologies, and perspectives to provide innovative readings of Campion’s work that are sure to spark new discussions.
Elsa Colombani is an independent scholar and film critic.Eurydice Da Silva is professor of screenwriting at Sorbonne Nouvelle University.
1. Vestigial Remains: Queens of the Garden, Angels of the House, and Dutiful Daughters in Jane Campion’s Sweetie, An Angel at My Table, and Holy Smoke!Sue Matheson2. Gendered Spaces in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake and Top of the Lake: China Girl: Female Oppression and Neutral CommunityLaura Benoît3. Poetic Textures, Jane Campion’s Interrogation of Gendered Notions of Creativity in Bright StarAnna Baccanti4. The Feminine Sublime in the Work of Jane CampionHelen Richardson5. Staging Desire in Jane Campion’s Portrait of a LadyGilles Menelgado6. Perspective, Dismemberment, and Editing in In the CutWendy Haslem7. The Mutability of the Male Body in The Piano (1993), Bright Star (2009) and The Power of the Dog (2021)Ian Murphy8. Opening her Third Eye: Jane Campion’s Auteurial Films during the Post-Cold War DecadeKatherine Cottle9. Antipodean Multiplicities: Hypotext and Influence in Jane Campion’s Dancing Daze and Two FriendsBlythe S Worthy10. Voiceless in the Trees: Postcolonial Memory and the Gothic in Jane Campion’s SweetieMichael Modarelli11. The Power of Playing with Genre: The Western Gothic Melodrama in Jane Campion’s The Power of the DogHervé Mayer