Auteurs and Authorship: A Film ReaderISBN: 978-1-4051-5333-1
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344 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments.
Figures and Captions.
Preface: How to Use this Book.
Introduction.
Part I: Classic Auteur Theory.
Introduction.
1. Francois Truffaut: A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema (1954).
2. André Bazin: La Politique des Auteurs (1957).
3. Ian Cameron: Films, Directors and Auteurs (1962).
4. Andrew Sarris: Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 (1962).
5. Pauline Kael: Circles and Squares (1963).
6. Peter Wollen: The Auteur Theory (1969) (excerpt).
7. V.F. Perkins: Direction and Authorship (1972) (excerpt).
8. Edward Buscombe: Ideas of Authorship (1973).
9. Robin Wood: Ideology, Genre, Auteur (1977).
Bibliography.
Part II: The Contexts of Authorship.
Introduction.
10. Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author (1968).
11. Charles Eckert: The English Cine-Structuralists (1973).
12. Graham Petrie: Alternatives to Auteurs (1973).
13. Claire Johnston: Women’s Cinema as Counter-Cinema (1973).
14. Angela Martin: Refocusing Authorship in Women's Cinema (2003).
15. Richard Kosarzski: The Men with the Movie Cameras (1972).
16. Richard Corliss: Notes on a Screenwriter's Theory, 1973 (1974).
17. Gore Vidal: Who Makes the Movies? (1976).
18. Peter Lehman: Script/Performance/Text: Performance Theory and Auteur Theory (1978).
19. Jerome Christensen: Studio Authorship (2006) (excerpt).
20. Matthew Bernstein: The Producer as Auteur (2006).
21. Bruce Kawin: Authorship, Design, and Execution (1987).
Bibliography.
Part III: Close Readings.
Introduction.
22. Maurice Yacowar: Hitchcock's Imagery and Art (1977).
23. Editors of Cahiers du Cinema: John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln (1970).
24. Paul Willeman: Towards an Analysis of the Sirkian System (1972).
25. Paul Kerr: My Name is Joseph H. Lewis (1983).
26. Michael Budd: Authorship as a Commodity: The Art Cinema and The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari (1984).
27. Claire Johnston and Pam Cook: The Place of Women in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh (1974).
28. Judith Mayne: Female Authorship Reconsidered (The Case of Dorothy Arzner) (1990).
29. Barry Keith Grant: Man’s Favorite Sport?: The Action Films of Kathryn Bigelow (2004).
30. Michael DeAngelis: Todd Haynes and Queer Authorship (2006).
31. J. Ronald Green: Twoness' in the Style of Oscar Micheaux (1993).
32. S. Craig Watkins: Spike’s Joint (1998) (excerpt).
Bibliography
