The relationship with literature in Jane Campion’s cinema

Authors

  • Anita Trivelli “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9505

Keywords:

cinema, literature, style, adaptation, gender

Abstract

Jane Campion’s cinema shows a constant attention to the formal aspects of film narration, while exploring the structures of patriarchy and opening up new horizons to undermine established roles and power relationships. In her five films directly inspired by poetic and literary texts – the subject of this essay – the New Zealand filmmaker reinterprets the starting materials with an original anticalligraphic style in the light of contemporaneity and relational asymmetries, articulating an exemplary «dialectic between cinema and literature»: from writing as salvation (An Angel at My Table) to the flashes of poetry (Bright Star), delving into the ambiguities of desire (The Portrait of a Lady) and into the abysses of the psyche (In the Cut) and of its removal (The Power of the Dog).

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Author Biography

Anita Trivelli, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara

Anita Trivelli is full professor of film studies, and member of the Consiglio Superiore del Cinema e dell’Audiovisivo of the Ministry of Culture. She got US and CNR fellowships. Her studies focus mainly on experimental and research cinema, in light of the topics of experientiality and nomadism, and of the issues raised by feminist film theory and gender studies. She wrote books: L’altra metà dello sguardo, Sulle tracce di Maya Deren. Il cinema come progetto e avventura (Limina Award and MIUR Excellence), Il cinema di Jane Campion. Dai cortometraggi a Top of the Lake; numerous essays and two videos (La sperimentazione formale e tematica di Marie Menken; Jonas Mekas e il New American Cinema), as well as contributions for digital platforms (Women Film Pioneers Project, Columbia Univ.; Gynocine Project, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst). She translated the book My Night Life by J. Mekas: La mia vita notturna, Limina Award for Best Foreign Book written by a film professional.

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Published

2022-11-28

How to Cite

Trivelli, A. (2022). The relationship with literature in Jane Campion’s cinema. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (6), 324–346. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9505

Issue

No. 6 (2022): Like a Prayer. Forms of the Religiousness and the Sacred in Contemporary Writings and Arts (1990-2020)

Section

Varia

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