Description
Auteurism - the idea that a director of a film is its source of meaning and should retain creative control over the finished product - has been one of film studies' most important paradigms ever since the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the adoption of the term 'auteur' by Andrew Sarris.
Through the popular, controversial and critically acclaimed films of Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard, the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke and Francois Ozon, this book looks into how the meaning of 'auteur' has changed over this half-century, and assesses the current state of Francophone auteur cinema. It combines French philosophical and sociological approaches with methodologies from the Anglo-American fields of gender studies, queer theory and postmodernism.
This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of film studies, European cinema and French and Francophone studies, as well as to film enthusiasts.
About the Author
Kate Ince is Reader in French Film and Gender Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Reviews
'It is a thoughtful book that does wave the flag convincingly for arefreshed notion of the auteur. I would be interested to see a 2017revisit.'
Jon Davies, MediaEducation Journal, Issue 62, Winter 2017-18
Book Information
ISBN 9780719086410
Author Kate Ince
Format Paperback
Page Count 168
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Series French Film Directors Series
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 9mm
