ABSTRACT
The film director or `auteur' has been central in film theory and criticism over the past thirty years. Theories of Authorship documents the major stages in the debate about film authorship, and introduces recent writing on film to suggest important ways in which the debate might be reconsidered.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |114 pages
Auteurism
chapter 1|8 pages
Introduction
part A|18 pages
Auteurism in theory
chapter 2|5 pages
M. H. Abrams: ‘Literature as a revelation of personality' (extract)
chapter 3|13 pages
Edward Buscombe: ‘Ideas of authorship'
part B|33 pages
The theory in practice
part C|53 pages
Dossier on John Ford
chapter 7|6 pages
Louis Marcorelles: ‘Ford of the movies'
chapter 8|3 pages
Lindsay Anderson: ‘The Searchers'
chapter 9|5 pages
Andrew Sarris: ‘The Searchers'
chapter 10|19 pages
Robin Wood: ‘Shall we gather at the river?; the late films of John Ford'
chapter 11|7 pages
Peter Wollen (Lee Russell): ‘John Ford'
chapter 12|8 pages
Jean-Louis Comolli: ‘Signposts on the trail'
chapter 13|4 pages
Jean Narboni: ‘Casting out the eights: John Ford's Seven Women'
part Two|76 pages
Auteur - structuralism
chapter 14|8 pages
Introduction
chapter 15|5 pages
Claude Lévi-Strauss: ‘The structural study of myth' (extract)
chapter 18|2 pages
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith: Visconti(extract)
chapter 17|14 pages
Peter Wollen: ‘The auteur theory' (extract)
chapter 18|14 pages
Charles Eckert: ‘The English cine-structuralists'
chapter 19|17 pages
Brain Henderson: ‘Critique of cine-structuralism' (part I)
chapter 21|6 pages
Pierre Macherey: ‘Literary analysis: the tomb of structures' (extract)
part Three|95 pages
Fiction of the author/author of the fiction
