The elusive auteur : the question of film authorship throughout the age of cinema / Barrett Hodsdon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodsdon, Barrett, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auteur theory (Motion pictures).

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

x, 327 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland Publishing & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Critical origins

Auteur concepts and problematics

The director in the classic Hollywood system

Cinephilia revisited

The changing face of Hollywood and the shifting sands of authorship since the 1970s

Autear displacement in the digital age.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) and index.

ISBN:

9781476668734

1476668736

OCLC:

963914375