Kathleen McHugh is a professor of English and film, television, and digital media at UCLA. She is the author of American Domesticity: From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama.

"This is an original, witty, and highly nuanced reading of Campion's films that takes into account a wide range of aesthetic and cultural influences on the filmmaker and her work. Wonderfully responsive to the films and informed by a non-dogmatic feminist sensibility, the book builds in power as it progresses. In sum: superb writing, superior scholarship, and stimulating—indeed, exciting—to read."--Vivian Sobchack, author of The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience"Astute and well-structured study of Campion's films."--Library Journal"McHugh supplies close . . . critical readings of Campion's films, offering thorough analyses of Campion's visual approach and recurrent subject matter—female self-expression, familial and sexual relationships, and gender roles, all of which evince the filmmaker's 'complicated relationship with feminism.'"--Booklist

• Contents Acknowledgments A Vision So Strange and So Strong Family Anthropology, Art, and Early Influence Film School, Global Feminism, and Friends The Early Films Seduction and Conquest Discipline Moments Story Film Features and A New Kind of Feminism Sweetie: Sisters and Family Trees An Angel at My Table: Making Oneself a "First Person" The Piano: Surrealism, Melodrama, and Mimetic Infection The Portrait of a Lady: From James to Jane Holy Smoke: The Uses and Misuses of Touch In the Cut: Adaptation, Grief, and Closure An Interview with Jane Campion: Michel Ciment An Interview with Jane Campion: Judith Lewis An Interview with Jane Campion: Lizzie Francke Bibliography Filmography Index

Kathleen McHugh is a professor of English and film, television, and digital media at UCLA. She is the author of American Domesticity: From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama.

"This is an original, witty, and highly nuanced reading of Campion's films that takes into account a wide range of aesthetic and cultural influences on the filmmaker and her work. Wonderfully responsive to the films and informed by a non-dogmatic feminist sensibility, the book builds in power as it progresses. In sum: superb writing, superior scholarship, and stimulating—indeed, exciting—to read."--Vivian Sobchack, author of The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience"Astute and well-structured study of Campion's films."--Library Journal"McHugh supplies close . . . critical readings of Campion's films, offering thorough analyses of Campion's visual approach and recurrent subject matter—female self-expression, familial and sexual relationships, and gender roles, all of which evince the filmmaker's 'complicated relationship with feminism.'"--Booklist

• Contents Acknowledgments A Vision So Strange and So Strong Family Anthropology, Art, and Early Influence Film School, Global Feminism, and Friends The Early Films Seduction and Conquest Discipline Moments Story Film Features and A New Kind of Feminism Sweetie: Sisters and Family Trees An Angel at My Table: Making Oneself a "First Person" The Piano: Surrealism, Melodrama, and Mimetic Infection The Portrait of a Lady: From James to Jane Holy Smoke: The Uses and Misuses of Touch In the Cut: Adaptation, Grief, and Closure An Interview with Jane Campion: Michel Ciment An Interview with Jane Campion: Judith Lewis An Interview with Jane Campion: Lizzie Francke Bibliography Filmography Index