13
JANE CAMPION AND THE LIMITS OF LITERARY CINEMA
Jane Campion's film The Piano (1993) poses some interesting problems in terms of the relationship between literature and cinema. We can begin by noting that the film itself attracted the kind of sustained analytical criticism which worked to designate it as literary’, even though it was not actually an adaptation. This meant that when the novel-of-the-film appeared a year later-co-written by Jane Campion and Kate Pullinger — it could only be identified as somehow less literary than the film: as if the film was more of a novel than the novel itself. The novel-of-the-film in fact answered some of the film's overhanging enigmas and resolved some of its ambiguities. In other words, it ...
Get Adaptations now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
