Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Authorship, Creativity, and Personal Cinema -- 1 Origins of a Problematic: The Campion Family -- 2 The "Tragic Underbelly" of the Family: Fantasies of Transgression in the Early Films -- 3 Living in the Shadow of the Family Tree: Sweetie -- 4 "How painful it is to have a family member witha problem like that": Authorship as Creative Adaptation in An Angel at My Table -- 5 Traumas of Separation and the Encounter with the Phallic Other: The Piano -- 6 The Misfortunes of an Heiress: The Portrait of a Lady -- 7 Exacting Revenge on "Cunt Men": Holy Smoke as Sexual Fantasy -- 8 "That which terrifies and attracts simultaneously": Killing Daddy in In the Cut -- 9 Lighting a Lamp: Loss, Art, and Transcendence in The Water Diary and Bright Star -- Conclusion: Theorizing the Personal Component of Authorship -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Index.