BackFive Directors
Auteurism from Assayas to Ozon (book in English)
Edited by Kate Ince
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Countries > France
- Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard, Dardenne Brothers, Michael Haneke, François Ozon, auteur cinema
- Publishing Date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Collection
- French Film Directors
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 168 pages • 22 €
5 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm) - ISBN
- 978-0-7190-8641-0
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Book Presentation:
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 François 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.
See the publisher website: Manchester University Press
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