Author Spotlight

Dana Polan

Dana Polan teaches cinema studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of eight books on film and cultural studies, including a volume on Jane Campion in the British Film Institute’s World Directors series, a study of The Sopranos for Duke University Press, and a monograph on Julia Child’s The French Chef television series, forthcoming from Duke.

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Sweetie: Jane Campion’s Experiment
As it has evolved, Jane Campion’s body of work has come increasingly to exhibit a powerful unity, centered on a commitment to depicting the psychosexual realities of women’s lives. In her feature films, she homes in on the subjectivity of one wom…

By Dana Polan

Essays— Oct 24, 2006