Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema

Contents

Contents· Acknowledgments xi· Introduction: Authorship, Creativity, and Personal Cinema 1 1 Origins of a Problematic: The Campion Family 25 2 The “Tragic Underbelly” of the Family: Fantasies of Transgression in the Early Films 48 3 Living in the Shadow of the Family Tree: Sweetie 69 4 “How painful it is to have a family member with a problem like that”: Authorship as Creative Adaptation in An Angel at My Table 88 5 Traumas of Separation and the Encounter with the Phallic Other: The Piano 107 6 The Misfortunes of an Heiress: The Portrait of a Lady 133 7 Exacting Revenge on “Cunt Men”: Holy Smoke as Sexual Fantasy 154 8 “That which terrifies and attracts simultaneously”: Killing Daddy in In the Cut 177 9 Lighting a Lamp: Loss, Art, and Transcendence in The Water Diary and Bright Star 201· Conclusion: Theorizing the Personal Component of Authorship 215· Notes 233· Works Cited 249· Filmography 259· Index 263 ...