Auteurs and Authorship

Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader offers students an introductory and comprehensive view of perhaps the most central concept in film studies. This unique anthology addresses the aesthetic and historical debates surrounding auteurship while providing author criticism and analysis in practice. * Examines a number of mainstream and established directors, including John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, Frank Capra, Kathryn Bigelow, and Spike Lee * Features historically important, foundational texts as well as contemporary pieces * Includes numerous student features, such as a general editor's introduction, short prefaces to each of the sections, bibliography, alternative tables of contents, and boxed features * Each essay deliberately focuses across film makers' oeuvres, rather than on one specific film, to enable lecturers to have flexibility in constructing their syllabi

ISBN 1405153342   Pages 344 ISBN13 9781405153348 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 650 Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Published in Chicester Format Paperback   Height (mm) 247 Publication date 10 Jan 2008   Width (mm) 191 Library of Congress 2007014547   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY 791.430233   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

Pt. I		Classic Auteur Theory		7
1		A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema (1954) by Francois Truffant		9
2		Tie la Politique des Auteurs (1957) by Andre Bazin		19
3		Films, Directors and Critics (1962) by Inn Cameron		29
4		Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 (1962) by Andrew Sarris		35
5		Circles and Squares (1963) (excerpt) by Pauline Kael		46
6		The Auteur Theory (1969) (excerpt) by Peter Wollen		55
7		Direction and Authorship (1972) (excerpt) by V. F. Perkins		65
8		Ideas of Authorship (1973) by Edward Buscombe		76
9		Ideology, Genre, Auteur (1977) by Robin Wood		84
		Further Reading		93
Pt. II		The Contexts of Authorship		95
10		The Death of the Author (1968) by Roland Barthes		97
11		The English Cine-Structuralists (1973) by Charles W. Eckert		101
12		Alternatives to Auteurs (1973) by Graham Petrie		110
13		Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema (1973) by Claire Johnston		119
14		Refocusing Authorship in Women's Filmmaking (2003) by Angela Martin		127
15		The Men with the Movie Cameras (1972) by Richard Koszarski		135
16		Notes on a Screenwriter's Theory 1973 (1974) by Richard Corliss		140
17		Who Makes the Movies? (1976) by Gore Vidal		148
18		Script/Performance/Text: Performance Theory and Auteur Theory (1978) by Peter Lehman		158
19		Studio Authorship, Corporate Art (2006) by Jerome Christensen		167
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"This book is a classroom. One hopes that by reading it, eager young cinephiles may pass through words into the true life of the screen." (Quarterly Review, December 2009) "Presents an arresting, thoughtful procession of ideas about who makes a movie." Afterimage "The question of authorship in cinema remains a crucial area of debate. Barry Keith Grant's excellent reader, which brings together most of the important French, British and American material, looks set to become a required text on the subject." Jim Hillier, University of Reading, England "Without doubt the best collection available on film authorship, which remains the single most challenging issue in film studies and the abiding mystery of cinema. From the groundbreaking polemics of the 1950s and ‘60s to cutting-edge analyses by top contemporary scholars, Auteurs and Authorship examines this endlessly salient topic in a remarkable array of essays that, taken together, provide the most comprehensive, in-depth treatment available." Tom Schatz, University of Texas, Austin “Deep and fulfilling examination of the theory ... [and] inclusion of virtually every valuable essay on cinema auteurism makes [it] an indispensable book." RogueCinema.com

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