Jane Campion's 'The Piano' & Harvey Keitel's Ass

You can't have one without the other

The first time I watched Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993) I was a sophomore in college, taking my brilliant advisor’s Fallen Women in Victorian Literature course, a class that has informed so much of my thinking, and the work I’ve done on my book. I was also dreadfully sick with a throat infection and so had to step out in the middle in order to hack int…