ReFocus: The Films of Jane Campion / / ed. by Alexia Bowler, Adele Jones.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Bowler, Alexia L.,; Cooper, Annabel,
• HerausgeberIn: Bowler, Alexia,; Jones, Adele,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 14 B/W illustrations

Explores the detail of Jane Campion’s film and television output, considering her vision and practice, legacy, and her contribution to feminist filmmakingIncludes multiple approaches consolidated within a feminist frameworkEngages with Campion’s oeuvre to-dateConsiders Campion’s engagement with feminism and feminist filmmakingJane Campion’s work shines a spotlight on gender relations, often through complex female characters and an innovative approach to the screen representation of women functioning at the edges of society. Campion is vocal about the under-representation of women in the film industry more generally, though her commitment to the notion of feminism is tempered by an ambivalence towards the term. Despite this ambiguity, Campion’s continued focus on women merits an exploration of her work through a feminist lens particularly in the wake of #MeToo, which has had a wide-ranging impact on the film industry.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Unruly Filmmaker, Fellow Traveller -- Part one -- Chapter 1 Claiming Campion: The Question of Jane Campion’s Politics Revisited -- Chapter 2 Two Friends: Circumstances of a Historic Feminist Collaboration -- Part two -- Chapter 3 Unsettling Presences: Agentic Embodiment in Jane Campion’s Films -- Chapter 4 ‘The mood that passes through you’: Reverberations of Music and Meaning in The Piano -- Chapter 5 ‘Only another man’: Homosociality in Jane Campion’s Bright Star and The Power of the Dog -- Chapter 6 ‘I don’t think so, Jan, that’s just another fantasy’: Practice, Paratext and the Power of Women’s Talk in Jane Campion’s Filmmaking -- Part three -- Chapter 7 Articulating Feminism(s): Voicelessness, (In)Visibility and Agency in Top of the Lake -- Chapter 8 Jane Campion’s Palimpsestuous Gothic: Kinship in Top of the Lake: China Girl -- Chapter 9 Photosensitive Primetime: Race and Recovery in Top of the Lake: China Girl -- Afterword: Unsettling Feminism -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index