An Auteurist History of Film

by Charles Silver

A definitive guide to the theory of film that has influenced generations of filmmakers and critics

Beginning in 2009, The Museum of Modern Art offered a weekly series of film screenings titled An Auteurist History of Film. Inspired by Andrew Sarris' seminal work The American Cinema, which developed on the idea of "auteur theory" first discussed by the critics of Cahiers du Cin ma in the 1950s, the series presented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870709771
• ISBN13: 9780870709777
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 9.9"