Auteurs And Authorship

• 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 focuses across film makers’ oeuvres, rather than on one specific film, to enable lecturers to have flexibility in constructing their syllabi

Acknowledgments.

Figures and Captions.

Preface: How to Use this Book.

Introduction.

Part I: Classic Auteur Theory.

Introduction.

1. Francois Truffaut: A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema (1954).

2. André Bazin: La Politique des Auteurs (1957).

3. Ian Cameron: Films, Directors and Auteurs (1962).

4. Andrew Sarris: Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 (1962).

5. Pauline Kael: Circles and Squares (1963).

6. Peter Wollen: The Auteur Theory (1969) (excerpt).

7. V.F. Perkins: Direction and Authorship (1972) (excerpt).

8. Edward Buscombe: Ideas of Authorship (1973).

9. Robin Wood: Ideology, Genre, Auteur (1977).

Bibliography.

Part II: The Contexts of Authorship.

Introduction.

10. Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author (1968).

11. Charles Eckert: The English Cine-Structuralists (1973).

12. Graham Petrie: Alternatives to Auteurs (1973).

13. Claire Johnston: Women’s Cinema as Counter-Cinema (1973).

14. Angela Martin: Refocusing Authorship in Women's Cinema (2003).

15. Richard Kosarzski: The Men with the Movie Cameras (1972).

16. Richard Corliss: Notes on a Screenwriter's Theory, 1973 (1974).

17. Gore Vidal: Who Makes the Movies? (1976).

18. Peter Lehman: Script/Performance/Text: Performance Theory and Auteur Theory (1978).

19. Jerome Christensen: Studio Authorship (2006) (excerpt).

20. Matthew Bernstein: The Producer as Auteur (2006).

21. Bruce Kawin: Authorship, Design, and Execution (1987).

Bibliography.

Part III: Close Readings.

Introduction.

22. Maurice Yacowar: Hitchcock's Imagery and Art (1977).

23. Editors of Cahiers du Cinema: John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln (1970).

24. Paul Willeman: Towards an Analysis of the Sirkian System (1972).

25. Paul Kerr: My Name is Joseph H. Lewis (1983).

26. Michael Budd: Authorship as a Commodity: The Art Cinema and The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari (1984).

27. Claire Johnston and Pam Cook: The Place of Women in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh (1974).

28. Judith Mayne: Female Authorship Reconsidered (The Case of Dorothy Arzner) (1990).

29. Barry Keith Grant: Man’s Favorite Sport?: The Action Films of Kathryn Bigelow (2004).

30. Michael DeAngelis: Todd Haynes and Queer Authorship (2006).

31. J. Ronald Green: Twoness' in the Style of Oscar Micheaux (1993).

32. S. Craig Watkins: Spike’s Joint (1998) (excerpt).

Bibliography