Omnibus Films : Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diffrient, David Scott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auteur theory (Motion pictures).

Motion picture authorship.

Motion pictures and literature.

Local Subjects:

Auteur theory (Motion pictures).

Motion picture authorship.

Motion pictures and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As the first book-length exploration of internationally distributed, multi-director episode films, Omnibus Films fills a considerable gap in the history of world cinema and aims to expand contemporary understandings of authorship, genre, narra

Contents:

Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; PART I Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; 1 "Beginnings without Ends": Conceptual Parameters and the Critical Discourses of Episodic Cinema; 2 Regulated Variety and Excess: Antecedents and Extensions of Episodic Cinema; 3 Key Concepts in Transauthorial Cinema: Abundance, Change, Containment, and Order; 4 Key Concepts in Film Studies: Authorship, Audience, Genre, and Nation; PART II Get on the Omnibus: Case Studies in Transauthorial Cinema

5 Wartime "Consensus Pictures" and the "Housing" of History: from Forever and a Day to Dead of Night6 Three Cases of Maugham: Quartet, Trio, and Encore; 7 Episodic Erotics and the Politics of Place: From Love in the City to Love and Anger; 8 Collective Opposition, Political Participation, and Worldwide Competition: from Visions of Eight to Visions of Europe; 9 The Recent Revival of the Omnibus Film: from Paris, je t'aime to 11'09"01; Notes; Filmography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780748695676

0748695672

OCLC:

1302164096