Intertextuality in Jane Campion's "The Piano"

• Autores: Esther Pérez-Villalba
• Localización: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource] / María Losada Friend (ed. lit.), Pilar Ron Vaz (ed. lit.), Sonia Hernández Santano (ed. lit.), Jorge Casanova García (ed. lit.), 2007, ISBN 978-84-96826-31-1
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Jane Campion's "The Piano" (1993) was soon acclaimed by the public, the critics, different cinema institutions, and academics alike. Its complexity also favoured the appearance of many and varied academic analysis of the film. A number of scholars have noted that this text relies upon different sources which inspired its creation. However, no scholarly work has considered its complex and multi-layered use of intertextuality as such, as a main issue. This paper will try to address this intertextual nature of "The Piano"; it will refer to some literary sources that probably provided inspiration for it and that have not been acknowledged in the existing literature; it will also consider others that, although mentioned by critics, acquire new perspectives and significance here. This essay will also finally suggest some plausible implications behind this very conscious use of intertextuality.