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The (Un)Speakable FEMININITY in Mainstream Movies: Jane Campion's The Piano
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 44, Number 2, Winter 2005
- pp. 68-88
- 10.1353/cj.2005.0004
- Article
- Additional Information
Jane Campion's film The Piano (1993) opens an uncanny space in mainstream movies where cinematic enunciation intersects with the linguistic and psychoanalytic innovations of the last half-century. This article presents a glimpse into the traces (semios) of FEMININITY as latent extra-Symbolic discourse in Campion's film.