Jane Campion

by Kathleen McHugh

Book Overview

In considering Jane Campion's early award-winning short films on through international sensation The Piano and beyond, Kathleen McHugh traces the director's distinctive visual style as well as her commitment to consistently renovating the conventions of "women's films." By refusing to position her female protagonists as victims, McHugh argues, Campion scrupulously avoids the moral structures of melodrama, and though she often works with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252074475
• ISBN13: 9780252074479
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.2"