Auteurs and Authorship A Film Reader [Paperback]

Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader offers students an introductory and comprehensive view of perhaps the most central concept in film studies. This unique anthology addresses the aesthetic and historical debates surrounding auteurship while providing author criticism and analysis in practice.

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• 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

Dedication.

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).