Film and Authorship

by Virginia Wright Wexman

Book Overview

During the 1960s, when cinema first entered the academy as a serious object of study, the primary focus was on auteurism, or on films authorship. Burgeoning cinema studies courses demonstrated how directors were the authors of work that undermined (or succeeded in spite of) all the constraints that Hollywood threw at them. New critical methods were introduced as the field matured, and studies of the author/director, for the most part, were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813531934
• ISBN13: 9780813531939
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"