Synopses & Reviews
Jane Campion's The Piano achieved critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993 and followed up by winning three Academy Awards. Piano Lessons is a provocative collection of essays examining the critically acclaimed film. An assembly of international academics, drawn from film and cultural studies disciplines, offers a unique examination of the film through diverse approaches-auteurist, feminist, psychoanalytic, post-colonial, melodrama and romance.
About the Author
Felicity Coombs is an Honours graduate of the University of Technology, Sydney. She is currently directing a one hour television documentary.
Suzanne Gemmell
Table of Contents
Performing The piano / Ruth Barcan and Madeleine Fogarty -- With choices like these, who needs enemies?: The piano, women's articulations, melodrama, and the woman's film / Neil Robinson -- Female sexuality, creativity, and desire in The piano / Richard Allen -- The sickness unto death: dislocated gothic in a minor key / Kirsten Moana Thompson -- In the body of The piano / Felicity Coombs -- Tempestuous petticoats: costume and desire in The piano / Stella Bruzzi -- The return of the repressed?: whiteness, femininity and colonialism in The piano / Lynda Dyson -- From land escape to bodyscape: images of the land in The piano / Laurence Simmons -- A land without a past: dreamtime and nation in The piano / Anna Neill -- Birth of a nation?: from Utu to The piano / Bridget Orr -- Cutting if fine: notes on The piano in the editing room / Claire Corbett.