Piano Lessons: Approaches to "The Piano": v.1 (Southern Screen Classic S.) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1864620358 ISBN 13: 9781864620351

Publisher: John Libbey Cinema and Animation, 2000

Synopsis

Jan Campion's "The Piano" achieved critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993 and its world-wide box office success was followed up by winning three Academy Awards. As a result of these successes there was renewed global interest in the Australian and New Zealand film industries and their products. "Piano Lessons" is a provocative collection of essays examining the critically acclaimed film "The Piano" from a range of differing perspectives. An assembly of international academics, drawn from film and cultural studies disciplines, offers a unique study of a major Australian film. It encapsulates the vision of the film through diverse approaches - auteurist, feminist, psychoanalytic, post-colonial, melodrama and romance - as a major cinematic achievement and as a complex and intriguing cultural product. The film attracted wide discussion from its critics and its audience. Campion's quirky cinematic eye gave us a teacup and a wedding veil that became images representative of a transported imperial culture and a piano that shifted from monstrous beauty to an emblem of death. Interesting and authoritative analyses of the film's textual narrative and representational strategies produce an informative rationale.

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About the Authors

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

Suzanne Gemmell

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

SuzanneGemmell

Edition details

• Publisher: John Libbey Cinema and Animation
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1864620358
• ISBN 13: 9781864620351
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Coombs Felicity, Gemmell Suzanne