Piano Lessons: Approaches to the Piano

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. Contents Pt. 1. Gender, Psychoanalysis, Melodrama Ch. 1. Performing The Piano / Ruth Barcan and Madeleine Fogarty Ch. 2. With Choices Like These, Who Needs Enemies?: The Piano, Women's Articulations, Melodrama, and the Woman's Film / Neil Robinson Ch. 3. Female Sexuality, Creativity, and Desire in The Piano / Richard Allen Ch. 4. Sickness Unto Death: Dislocated Gothic in a Minor Key / Kirsten Moana Thompson Pt. 2. Cultural Studies Ch. 5. In the body of The Piano / Felicity Coombs Ch. 6. Tempestuous petticoats: Costume and the desire in The Piano / Stella Bruzzi Pt. 3. Post Colonial Studies and Issues of Nation Ch. 7. Return of the Repressed?: Whiteness, Femininity and Colonialism in The Piano / Lynda Dyson Ch. 8. From Land Escape to Bodyscape: Images of the Land in The Piano / Laurence Simmons Ch. 9. Land Without a Past: Dreamtime and Nation in The Piano / Anna Neill Ch. 10. Birth of a Nation?: From Utu to The Piano / Bridget Orr Pt. 4. Diary Ch. 11. Cutting it Fine: Notes on The Piano in the Editing Room / Claire Corbett.