Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema

by Lucy Fischer

Body Double explores the myriad ways that film artists have represented the creative process. In this highly innovative work, Lucy Fischer draws on a neglected element of auteur studies to show that filmmakers frequently raise questions about the paradoxes of authorship by portraying the onscreen writer. Dealing with such varied topics as the icon of the typewriter, the case of the writer/director, the authoress, and the omnipresent infirm...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813554489
• ISBN13: 9780813554488
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"