Primal curiosity, primal anxiety : the child settler in Vigil and The Piano / by Harriet Wild

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Title

Primal curiosity, primal anxiety : the child settler in Vigil and The Piano / by Harriet Wild

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National Library of New Zealand

Collection

Index New Zealand

Description

Illustrates the position of the child in the films by directors Vincent Ward and Jane Campion as anxious witness of settlement, by first tracing the understanding of the latency-aged child in the work of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein and then examining the film texts to foreground the anxiety and ambivalent curiosity arising from the witnessing of each film's 'primal scene'.

Format

Journal

Date created

2011

Creator

Wild, Harriet, (University of Auckland)

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/30039580

Related subjects

Anxiety in children / Sexual fantasies / Sexual excitement / Vigil (Motion picture) / Piano (Motion picture)

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