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Informationen zum Autor Virginia Wright Wexman, past president of the Society for Cinema Studies, is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance and other books and articles on film. Klappentext Spanning fields from poststructuralism, feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, and cultural studies, the contributors ask - what does ""auteurship"" look like today in light of new critical developments in the film studies? Zusammenfassung Spanning fields from poststructuralism! feminism! queer theory! postcolonialism! and cultural studies! the contributors ask - what does ""auteurship"" look like today in light of new critical developments in the film studies? Inhaltsverzeichnis The auteur theory revisited / Andrew Sarris The revenge of the author / Colin MacCabe Authorship and narration in art cinema / David Bordwell The female authorial voice / Kaja Silverman A parallax view of lesbian authorship / Judith Mayne "The whole equation of pictures" / Thomas Schatz The commerce of auteurism / Timothy Corrigan Transnational film authors and the state of Latin American cinema / Marvin D'Lugo "Our own institutions": the geopolitics of chicano professionalism / Chon A. Noriega Cinema in search of its authors: on the notion of film authorship in legal discourse / Marjut Salokannel D.W. Griffith: historical figure, film director, and ideological shadow / Tom Gunning Cecil B. Demille and highbrow culture: authorship versus intertextuality / Sumiko Higashi Writing himself into history: Oscar Micheaux / Pearl Bowser, Louise Spence The filmmaker as poet: Stan Brakhage / David E. James
