Theories of Authorship: A ReaderJohn Caughie Psychology Press, 1981 - 316 pages 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
Ideas of authorship | 22 |
B The theory in practice | 35 |
Movie | 48 |
Andrew Sarris | 61 |
Dossier on John Ford | 68 |
The Searchers | 75 |
Shall we gather at the river? the late films | 83 |
Conclusion to the Cahiers | 183 |
Literary analysis the tomb | 191 |
Introduction | 199 |
The death of the author | 208 |
Comment on The idea | 214 |
Six authors in pursuit of | 221 |
A note on history | 232 |
Woman desire and the look | 242 |
John Ford | 102 |
Signposts on the trail | 109 |
Casting out the eights John Fords Seven | 117 |
Introduction | 123 |
The structural study of myth | 131 |
The auteur theory extract | 138 |
The English cinestructuralists | 152 |
Critique of cinestructuralism | 166 |
The rhetoric of the specular text with | 251 |
The absent field of the Author | 261 |
The point of selfexpression | 271 |
What is an author? extract | 282 |
Notes on terms | 291 |
Bibliography | 299 |
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