Self-projection : the director's image in art cinema / Linda Haverty Rugg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rugg, Linda Haverty, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Auteur theory (Motion pictures).

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Physical Description:

xii, 213 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

Summary:

Linda Haverty Rugg contends that the films of some of the most important auteurs are intensely, if complexly, related to the lives and self-images of their directors. Self-Projection explores how nondocumentary narrative art films create alternative forms of collaborative self-representation and selfhood- The book examines the work of directors who plant autobiographical traces in their films, including Truffaut, Bergman. Fellini, Tarkovsky, Herzog, Allen, Almodóvar, and von Trier. These directors encourage identifications between themselves and their work even as they disavow such connections. Lively and accessible, Self-Projection sheds new light on the films of these iconic directors and on art cinema in general, ultimately showing how film can transform not only the autobiographical act but what it means to have a self. Book jacket.

Contents:

The director's body

The director plays director

Actor, avatar

Self-projection and the cinematic apparatus

Conclusion: the eye/I of the auteur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9780816691234

0816691231

9780816691241

081669124X

OCLC:

856861077