Auteurs and Authorship A Film Reader

by Grant, Barry Keith

• ISBN13: 9781405153348
• ISBN10: 1405153342
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.The book draws on a wide variety of sources to highlight the major debates, criticisms, and analyses of traditional auteur theory and authorship in cinema. For the first time, classic and lesser-known film reviews are gathered in one convenient student volume. Francois Truffaut, Andre Bazin, Andrew Sarris, Pauline Kael, Peter Wollen, and Robin Wood are among the critics featured. The lifetime cinematic achievements of established directors such as John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, Frank Capra, Kathryn Bigelow, and Spike Lee are examined.The essays are organized chronologically, except in cases where flexibility adds an important historical or practical dimension. The book is an ideal resource for use in courses on authorship in the cinema, auteur theory, film theory, film criticism, film aesthetics and history of film.

Author Biography

Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology, Film Genre Reader, The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, Five Films by Frederick Wiseman, Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman and Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Figures and Captions

Preface: How to Use this Book

Introduction

Classic Auteur Theory: Introduction

A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema (1954)

La Politique des Auteurs (1957)

Films, Directors and Auteurs (1962)

Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 (1962)

Circles and Squares (1963)

The Auteur Theory (1969) (excerpt)

Direction and Authorship (1972) (excerpt)

Ideas of Authorship (1973)

Ideology, Genre, Auteur (1977)

Bibliography

The Contexts of Authorship: Introduction

The Death of the Author (1968)

The English Cine-Structuralists (1973)

Alternatives to Auteurs (1973)

Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema (1973)

Refocusing Authorship in Women's Cinema (2003)

The Men with the Movie Cameras (1972)

Notes on a Screenwriter's Theory, 1973 (1974)

Who Makes the Movies? (1976)

Script/Performance/Text: Performance Theory and Auteur Theory (1978)

Studio Authorship (2006) (excerpt)

The Producer as Auteur (2006)

Authorship, Design, and Execution (1987)

Bibliography

Close Readings: Introduction

Hitchcock's Imagery and Art (1977)

John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln (1970)

Towards an Analysis of the Sirkian System (1972)

My Name is Joseph H. Lewis (1983)

Authorship as a Commodity: The Art Cinema and The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari (1984)

The Place of Women in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh (1974)

Female Authorship Reconsidered (The Case of Dorothy Arzner) (1990)

Man's Favorite Sport?: The Action Films of Kathryn Bigelow (2004)

Todd Haynes and Queer Authorship (2006)

Twoness' in the Style of Oscar Micheaux (1993)

Spike's Joint (1998) (excerpt)

Bibliography

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