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Informationen zum Autor Alistair Fox is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research on National Identity at the University of Otago. Klappentext He establishes how Campion's deep investment in family relationships informs her aesthetic strategies, revealed in everything from the handling of shots and lighting, to the complex system of symbolic images repeated from one film to the next. Zusammenfassung How personal experience is woven into a fi lmmaker's art Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Authorship, Creativity, and Personal Cinema 1. Origins of a Problematic: The Campion Family 2. The "Tragic Underbelly" of the Family: Fantasies of Transgression in the Early Films 3. Living in the Shadow of the Family Tree: Sweetie 4. "How painful it is to have a family member with a problem like that": Authorship as Creative Adaptation in An Angel at My Table 5. Traumas of Separation and the Encounter with the Phallic Other: The Piano 6. The Misfortunes of an Heiress: The Portrait of a Lady 7. Exacting Revenge on "Cunt Men": Holy Smoke as Sexual Fantasy 8. "That which terrifies and attracts simultaneously": Killing Daddy in In the Cut 9. Lighting a Lamp: Loss, Art, and Transcendence in The Water Diary and Bright Star Conclusion: Theorizing the Personal Component of Authorship Notes Works Cited Filmography Index
