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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Jane Campion : Interviews
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'In outstanding films that are sharply focused on unusual women Jane Campion has gained worldwide admiration and respect. This New Zealand director first attracted international attention with her 1989 film Sweetie, an acerbic study of two sisters in a wildly dysfunctional family. She followed this in 1990 with the television miniseries An Angel at My Table, based on the autobiography of New Zealand author Janet Frame. Subsequently released in theatres, the film chronicles the early trials of the young writer. Poor, timid, and physically awkward, Frame was misdiagnosed as schizophrenic and was scheduled for a lobotomy, but her success as a writer enabled her to escape this fate and won her fame and acceptance. In 1993 in yet another story about an extraordinary woman, Campion made the award-winning film The Piano. It starred Holly Hunter as the Victorian mail-order bride who refuses to speak. Arriving in New Zealand with her young daughter, the young Scottish widow confronts isolation in the wilderness and communicates only via her piano until she finds real love in her husband's neighbor, played by Harvey Keitel. Campion next adapted Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, starring Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer, a young American heiress seduced by a decadent pair of expatriates living in Italy.

'In this collection of interviews Campion speaks of these films that have given women a revival as a strong screen presence. Campion tells of her early life in Wellington and of her training as a filmmaker in the 1980s at the Australian School of Film and Television. She speaks of those who have influenced her style and her experiences in making movies.

'Campion received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1993 and was the first woman director to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes.' (Publication summary)

Contents

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University Press of Mississippi , 1999 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Jane Campion, Mark Stiles , single work interview (p. 3-8)
The New Filmmakers, Kristin Williamson , single work interview (p. 9-10)
Getting It in the Cannes, Yvonne Preston , single work interview (p. 11-13)
The Contradictions of Jane Campion, Cannes Winner, Andrew L. Urban , single work interview (p. 14-15)
Campion : Cannes She Do It?, Andrew L. Urban , single work interview (p. 16-19)
Jane Campion, Philippa Hawker , single work interview (p. 20-25)
Campion Goes Out on a Limb - Again, Ruth Hessey , single work interview (p. 26-29)
Two Interviews with Jane Campion, Michel Ciment , single work interview (p. 30-44)
Sugar with the Sweetie, Carla Hall , single work interview (p. 45-49)
A Director Strikes an Intimate Chord, Carrie Rickey , single work interview (p. 50-53)
The Sweet Smell of Success, Donna Yuzwalk , single work interview (p. 54-56)
Angel with an Eccentric Eye, Lynden Barber , single work interview (p. 57-61)
The Red Wigs of Autobiography : Interview with Jane Campion, Michel Ciment , single work interview (p. 62-70)
Jane's Film Career Takes Wing, Katherine Tulich , single work interview (p. 71-73)
Jane Campion Interviewed, Hunter Cordaiy , single work interview (p. 74-82)
Interview with Jane Campion : In the Country of the Hypersensitive, Yves Alion , single work interview (p. 83-85)
How Women Live Their Lives, Heike-Melba Fendel , single work interview (p. 86-90)
Structure Is Essential/Absolutely Crucial/One of the Most Important Things, Andreas Furler , single work interview (p. 91-95)
Jane Campion : Making Friends by Directing Films, Marli Feldvoss , single work interview (p. 96-100)
Interview with Jane Campion : More Barbarian Than Aesthete, Thomas Bourguignon , Michel Ciment , single work interview (p. 101-112)

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