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Jane Campion
Authorship and Personal Cinema
by Alistair Fox
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Book Presentation:
Alistair 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, Peel, to 2009's Bright Star. 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.
About the Author:
Alistair Fox is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research on National Identity at the University of Otago.
Press Reviews:
"In his book, Alistair Fox finds and illuminates the relations between diegetic worlds and the life of a "New Zealand Australian", Jane Campion."
-25fps.cz
"This is easily the best, most comprehensive book now available on Campion and her work. . . . Highly recommended.September 2011"
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"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, Brock University
See the publisher website: Indiana University Press
See the complete filmography of Jane Campion on the website: IMDB ...
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