Self-Projection [electronic resource] : The Director's Image in Art Cinema

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rugg, Linda Haverty.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auteur theory (Motion pictures).

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Motion pictures.

Local Subjects:

Auteur theory (Motion pictures).

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1957, a decade before Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, François Truffaut called for a new era in which films would "resemble the person who made" them and be "even more personal" than an autobiographical novel. More than five decades on, it seems that Barthes has won the argument when it comes to most film critics. The cinematic author, we are told, has been dead for a long time. Yet Linda Haverty Rugg contends not only that the art cinema auteur never died, but that the films of some of the most important auteurs are intensely, if complexly, related to the live

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Without a You, No I: Cinematic Self-Projection; 1. The Director's Body; 2. The Director Plays Director; 3. Actor, Avatar; 4. Self-Projection and the Cinematic Apparatus; CONCLUSION: The Eye/I of the Auteur; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FILMOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4153-X