JANE CAMPION

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