Piano Lessons

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.

Felicity Coombs is an Honours graduate of the University of Technology, Sydney. She is currently directing a one hour television documentary.

Suzanne Gemmell

Preface

vii

Contributions

xi

Authors

xv

PART 1 GENDER, PSYCHOANALYSIS, MELODRAMA

Performing The Piano

3

(16)

Ruth Barcan

Madeleine Fogarty

With Choices Like These, Who Needs Enemies?: The Piano, Women's Articulations, Melodrama, and the Woman's Film

19

(25)

Neil Robinson

Female Sexuality, Creativity, and Desire in The Piano

44

(20)

Richard Allen

The Sickness Unto Death: Dislocated Gothic in a Minor Key

64

(19)

Kirsten Moana Thompson

PART 2 CULTURAL STUDIES

In the body of The Piano

83

(14)

Felicity Coombs

Tempestuous petticoats: Costume and desire in The Piano

97

(14)

Stella Bruzzi

PART 3 POST COLONIAL STUDIES AND ISSUES OF NATION

The Return of the Repressed?: Whiteness, Femininity and Colonialism in The Piano

111

(11)

Lynda Dyson

From Land Escape to Bodyscape: Images of the Land in The Piano

122

(14)

Laurence Simmons

A Land Without a Past: Dreamtime and Nation in The Piano

136

(12)

Anna Neill

Birth of a Nation?: From Utu to The Piano

148

(15)

Bridget Orr

PART 4 DIARY

Cutting it Fine: Notes on The Piano in the Editing Room

163

Claire Corbett

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