Barrett Hodsdon

The Elusive Auteur

The Question of Film Authorship Throughout the Age of Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

The director's authorial role in filmmaking--the extent to which a film reflects his or her individual style and creative vision--has been much debated among film critics and scholars for decades. Drawing on generations of criticism, this study describes how the designation "auteur" has gone from stylistic criterion to product label--in what has always been an essentially collaborative industry. Examining the controversy in regard to Hollywood directors, the author compares directors and would-be auteurs of the classic studio system with those of contemporary Hollywood and its new climate of cultural entrepreneurship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 637g
• ISBN-13: 9781476668734
• ISBN-10: 1476668736
• Artikelnr.: 47084026

Autorenporträt

Barrett Hodsdon has spent many years teaching, writing about and researching the film industry. In the 1970s he pioneered a film studies collection for the National Library of Australia. He has written a number of film journal articles covering aesthetics, genres, and documentary and domestic film culture issues. He lives in North Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Notes on Terminology Part I: Critical Origins
1.
Authorial Function and Historical Precedents
2.
Cahiers du Cinéma and Founding the Discourse of Auteur Criticism: Snapshots in Time
3.
Andrew Sarris and the Auteur Re-Evaluation of Hollywood Part II: Auteur Concepts and Problematics
4.
Reconsidering the Underpinnings of Traditional Auteur Criticism
5.
Agency and Authorship: Forms of Mediation
6.
Extending the Lineages of Authorship: Art Cinema and the Avant-Garde Part III: The Director in the Classic Hollywood System
7.
The Hierarchy of Directors and Work Relations
8.
Reconciling the Director with Creative Contributors
9.
Reformulating Authorial Presence: The Value of a Neoformalist Designation 10.
Triumphs, Accommodations, Victims and Mavericks: 15 Examples Part IV: Cinephilia Revisited 11.
Cinephilia and Its Historical Trajectory 12.
Recapturing the Sublime Moment: A Spectrum of Films Part V: The Changing Face of Hollywood and the Shifting Sands of Authorship Since the 1970s 13.
From Vision to Branding 14.
Contemporary Hollywood Directors and Auteur Slippage: Illustrating the New Breed of Auteurs Part VI: Auteur Displacement in the Digital 15.
The Inheritance from the Past 16.
The Enclave of Art Cinema 17.
Old Notions of Authorship Unhinged 18.
Revamping Cinephilia in a Postmodern Climate 19.
Implications of the Media Revolution The Last Word Chapter Notes Bibliography Index