Title
Bluebeard in Jane Campion's "the piano": A case study in intertextuality as an enunciation of FEMININITY in mainstream movies
Abstract
The Bluebeard folktale is (re)produced in Jane Campion's The Piano (1993) as the featured performance in a pageant that a minister organizes for his colonial New Zealand congregation. This construction-en-abyme is representative of intertextuality in terms of Julia Kristeva's "affirmative negativity." The paper explores intertextuality in The Piano as an agent of a multiplex and extra-lingual dialogism linked to FEMININITY and the female gaze.
Department(s)
Media, Journalism, and Film
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v08i07/42968
Keywords
Dialogism, Female gaze, FEMININITY, Intertextuality, Jane Campion, Julia Kristeva, Maternal semiotic, Mikhail Bakhtin
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Recommended Citation
Bihlmeyer, Jaime. "Bluebeard in Jane Campion's" The Piano": A Case Study in Intertextuality as an Enunciation of FEMININITY in Mainstream Movies." International Journal of the Humanities 8, no. 7 (2010).
Journal Title
International Journal of the Humanities
