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With An Angel at My Table, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Jane Campion brought to the screen the harrowing autobiography of Janet Frame, New Zealand’s most distinguished author. Three actors in turn take on the lead role (including Kerry Fox in a marvelous performance as the adult Frame), as the film describes a journey from an impoverished childhood marked by tragedy to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia resulting in electroshock therapy and a narrowly escaped lobotomy to, finally, international literary fame. Unobtrusively capturing the beauty and power of the New Zealand landscape while maintaining the film’s focus on the figure at its center, Campion broke new ground for female filmmakers everywhere and earned a sweep of her country’s film awards, along with the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

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"Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted the impossible task of finding harmony among self, art, and society. Taking place on the last day of Mishima's life, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer's past as well as gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works. With its rich cinematography by John Bailey, exquisite sets and costumes by Eiko Ishioka, and unforgettable, highly influential score by Philip Glass, Mishima: a Life in Four Chapters is a tribute to its subject and a bold, investigative work of art in its own right"

Authors, Japanese --- Male friendship --- Interpersonal relations --- Man-woman relationships --- Authors, Japanese --- Mishima, Yukio, --- Tate no Kai (Japan)

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This unique collection of essays, accompanied by a pioneering DVD, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. The book presents the work of a renowned and diverse group of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing scholars who examine original ASL poetry, narrative, and drama. The DVD showcases the poems and narratives under discussion in their original form, providing access to them for hearing non-signers for the first time. Together, the book and DVD provide new insight into the history, culture, and creative achievements of the deaf community while expanding the scope of the visual and performing arts, literary criticism, and comparative literature.

American Sign Language literature. --- Deaf authors. --- Deaf, Theater for the. --- Visual literature --- History and criticism. --- #KVHA:American Studies --- #KVHA:Letterkunde Amerikaanse Gebarentaal --- Contains audio-visual material --- Sign language --- American literature --- Literary semiotics --- Aesthetics --- American Sign Language literature --- Deaf authors --- Deaf, Theater for the --- #KVHA:Letterkunde; Amerikaanse Gebarentaal --- Lettrism --- Literature --- Deaf theater --- Sign language theater --- Theater for the deaf --- Theater --- Deaf as authors --- Authors --- History and criticism --- #KVHA:Literatuurgeschiedenis; gebarentaal