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Jane Campion is one of the few women film-makers working today who has managed to create a unique body of work on her own terms. The films she has chosen to make could only have been made outside of the studio system, yet Campion attracts A-list Hollywood superstars to appear in her films, which continue to have strong independent women at their core. Who else but Jane Campion could have convinced a tattooed Harvey Keitel to run buck-naked through the New Zealand landscape in the award-garlanded The Piano (1993), or for twice Oscar nominated actress Kate Winslet to pee down her legs in the middle of the desert in Holy Smoke (1999)? This kind of creativity and nerve is unusual for anyone working in the industry - especially for a woman who snubs Hollywood. This Pocket Essential guide surveys her remarkable career - from her Palme D'Or-winning debut short film Peel (1982) to her most recent feature film, Holy Smoke (1999) - and examines in detail the impact her background in anthropology has had in creating the richly textured landscapes against which her films are played out.
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