Jane Campion - Filmmaker and Philosopher

Throughout films and television series like The Piano , Bright Star, In the Cut and Top of the Lake , Jane Campion has constantly explored gender, subjectivity and narrative representation. In an intensive engagement with her cross-medium career, Bernadette Wegenstein examines how Campion gives a tangible and visible form to the female gaze in her exploration, deployment, and ultimately her subversion of highly formalized genres such as the period piece, the thriller, and the procedural drama. Keeping a strict focus on her directorial practice and specifically on the capacity of her cinematography to induce both empathy and estrangement, this vital new book shows how Campion is engaged in a permanent artistic and intuitive exposition of a profoundly feminist philosophical vision. Wegenstein''s work will be invaluable to scholars and students in gender and women''s studies, film studies and those on philosophy and film courses.>

Product details

• Authors: Bernadette Wegenstein
• Assisted by: Costica Bradatan (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2024
• EAN: 9781350162068
• ISBN: 978-1-350-16206-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 222 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Philosophical Filmmakers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Critical Theory, social and political philosophy, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Theory & Criticism