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Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Dedication. Acknowledgments. Figures and Captions. Preface: How to Use this Book. Introduction. Part I: Classic Auteur Theory. Introduction. 1. Francois Truffaut: A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema (1954). 2. André Bazin: La Politique des Auteurs (1957). 3. Ian Cameron: Films, Directors and Auteurs (1962). 4. Andrew Sarris: Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 (1962). 5. Pauline Kael: Circles and Squares (1963). 6. Peter Wollen: The Auteur Theory (1969) (excerpt). 7. V.F. Perkins: Direction and Authorship (1972) (excerpt). 8. Edward Buscombe: Ideas of Authorship (1973). 9. Robin Wood: Ideology, Genre, Auteur (1977). Bibliography. Part II: The Contexts of Authorship. Introduction. 10. Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author (1968). 11. Charles Eckert: The English Cine-Structuralists (1973). 12. Graham Petrie: Alternatives to Auteurs (1973). 13. Claire Johnston: Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema (1973). 14. Angela Martin: Refocusing Authorship in Women's Cinema (2003). 15. Richard Kosarzski: The Men with the Movie Cameras (1972). 16. Richard Corliss: Notes on a Screenwriter's Theory, 1973 (1974). 17. Gore Vidal: Who Makes the Movies? (1976). 18. Peter Lehman: Script/Performance/Text: Performance Theory and Auteur Theory (1978). 19. Jerome Christensen: Studio Authorship (2006) (excerpt). 20. Matthew Bernstein: The Producer as Auteur (2006). 21. Bruce Kawin: Authorship, Design, and Execution (1987). Bibliography. Part III: Close Readings. Introduction. 22. Maurice Yacowar: Hitchcock...
