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Jane Campion's the Piano (Cambridge Film Handbooks)

by Harriet Elaine Margolis

Jane Campion's the Piano (Cambridge Film Handbooks) Cover

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Publisher Comments:

Jane Campion's The Piano is one of the most unusual love stories in the history of cinema. This volume examines the film from a variety of critical perspectives. In six essays, specially commissioned for this project, an international team of scholars examine topics such as the controversial representation of the Maori, the use of music in the film, the portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship, and the significance of the film in terms of international cinema, the culture of New Zealand, and the work of Jane Campion.

Synopsis:

This title is an examination of Jane Campion's 'The Piano from a variety of critical perspectives.

Synopsis:

Each Cambridge Film Handbook focuses on a single film from a variety of theoretical, critical and contextual perspectives. This "prism" approach is designed to give students and general readers valuable background and insight into the cinematic, artistic, cultural, and socio-political importance of individual films by including essays by leading film scholars and critics. Filmographies and selected bibliographies are included.

Synopsis:

An examination of Jane Campion??'s The Piano from a variety of critical perspectives.

Description:

Filmography: p. 163-166, Includes bibliographical references (p. 191) and index.
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Table of Contents

Introduction: 'A Strange Heritage': from colonisation to transformation? Harriet Margolis; 1. Music in The Piano Claudia Gorbman; 2. The last patriarch Ann Hardy; 3. The Piano, the animus, and colonial experience John Izod; 4. Ebony and ivory: constructions of Maori in The Piano Leonie Pihama; 5. Foreign tunes? Gender and nationality in four countries' reception of The Piano Stephen Crofts.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780521597210
Editor:
Margolis, Harriet Elaine
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Editor:
Margolis, Harriet
Author:
Margolis, Harriet
Author:
Andrew, Horton
Author:
Campion, Jane
Author:
Margolis, Harriet Elaine
Location:
Cambridge, UK ;
Subject:
History
Subject:
Mass media
Subject:
Film - General
Subject:
Film - History & Criticism
Subject:
Motion pictures
Subject:
Piano
Subject:
Mass Media - General
Subject:
Film & Video - History & Criticism
Subject:
Media Studies
Subject:
Piano (Motion picture)
Series:
Cambridge Film Handbooks
Series Volume:
97-693
Publication Date:
October 1999
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
9 half-tones
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
894x596x59 65
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