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The Return of the Repressed? : Whiteness, Femininity and Colonialism in The Piano single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 The Return of the Repressed? : Whiteness, Femininity and Colonialism in The Piano
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'Lynda Dyson skilfully argues that the film is so preoccupied with upholding Ada's courgeois femininity and securing her fate in the colonial culture that it glosses over the history of Maori resistance. She locates her argument in the contemporary post-colonial anxieties over New Zealand's past, teasing out the primitivist discourse in the film that positions the Maori collectively outside of culture and history.' (p.xii)

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  • Previously published in Screen 36.3 (Autumn 1995).

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Piano Lessons : Approaches to The Piano Felicity O'Brien (editor), Suzanne Gemmell (editor), Sydney : John Libbey Publishing , 2000 11459161 2000 anthology criticism

    '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.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

         Sydney : John Libbey Publishing , 2000     pg. 111-121
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  • The Piano Jane Campion , 1993 single work film/TV
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