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- Title: Two Gothic Feminist Texts: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and the Film, The Piano, By Jane Campion.
- Author : revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos Atlantis
- Release Date : January 01, 2000
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 232 KB
Description
Emily Bronte's novel and Campion's film not only are distant in time, but they also belong to different aesthetic disciplines. However, their two plots share many aspects and there is direct influence of the novel on the film. In this article we have explored the Gothic and "romantic" elements that they have in common. Campion's feminist re/vision of Victorianism reveals a celebratory nostalgia of the Gothic feminist style but, by using a contemporary perspective, it becomes a new and appealing approach to the period. The feminist film critic and theorist Patricia Mellencamp defines the film The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) as "a Gothic fairy tale, complete with a journey, a forest, a cottage in the woods, a magical object, a prince, a kiss and a happy ever after, all made strange by obsession, the compelling force of thought" (Mellencamp 1995: 177). This critic places Jane Campion's film among the representatives of what she considers to be the third age of film feminism, "Experimental feminism". According to Mellencamp this third age is characterised by female directors' search for positive solutions for women within women's experience itself. Jane Campion's narrative, an acclaimed screenplay as well as a successful and popular film, takes the search back to the 19% century and combines it with relevant postcolonial claims related to her own experience and political views as a born New Zealander.