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Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader
Grant
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Description for Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Grant, Barry Keith. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 200 x 25. Weight in Grams: 826.
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.
- 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405153331
SKU
V9781405153331
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Ref
99-50
About Grant
Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology, Film Genre Reader, The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, Five Films by Frederick Wiseman, Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman and Documenting ... Read more
Reviews for Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader
"This book is a classroom. One hopes that by reading it, eager young cinephiles may pass through words into the true life of the screen." (Quarterly Review, December 2009) "Presents an arresting, thoughtful procession of ideas about who makes a movie." Afterimage "The question of authorship in cinema remains a crucial area of ... Read more