Auteurs and Authorship: A Film ReaderISBN: 978-1-4051-5333-1
Hardcover
344 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
 This is a Print-on-Demand title. It will be printed specifically to fill your order. Please allow an additional 15-20 days delivery time. The book is not returnable.
Other Available Formats: Paperback
|
||||||
- An introductory and comprehensive book on auteurs within film
studies: the study of film directors who are considered to have a
distinctive, recognizable vision
- Addresses the range of theoretical issues and aesthetic and
historical debates relating to film authorship, whilst providing
author criticism and analysis in practice
- Examines a number of mainstream and established directors,
including John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk,
Frank Capra, Kathryn Bigelow, and Spike Lee
- Features historically important, foundational texts as well as
contemporary pieces
- Includes numerous student features, such as a general
editor’s introduction, short prefaces to each of the
sections, bibliography, alternative tables of contents, and boxed
features
- Each essay deliberately focuses across film makers’ oeuvres, rather than on one specific film, to enable lecturers to have flexibility in constructing their syllabi
Related Titles
Film Theory
Read an Excerpt
.png){kind=small}
Join An E-mail ListLearn about the latest products, events, offers and content. |
