Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader offers students an introductory and comprehensive view of perhaps the most central concept in film studies. This unique anthology addresses the aesthetic and historical debates surrounding auteurship while providing author criticism and analysis in practice. Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader offers students an introductory and comprehensive view of perhaps the most central concept in film studies. This unique anthology addresses the aesthetic and historical debates surrounding auteurship while providing author criticism and analysis in practice. List of Illustrations vii Preface: How to Use This Book xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1(6) Part I: Classic Auteur Theory 7(88) A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema (1954) 9(10) Francois Truffaut De la Politique des Auteurs (1957) 19(10) Andre Bazin Films, Directors and Critics (1962) 29(6) Ian Cameron Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 (1962) 35(11) Andrew Sarris Circles and Squares (1963) (excerpt) 46(9) Pauline Kael The Auteur Theory (1969) (excerpt) 55(10) Peter Wollen Direction and Authorship (1972) (excerpt) 65(11) V.F. Perkins Ideas of Authorship (1973) 76(8) Edward Buscombe Ideology, Genre, Auteur (1977) 84(11) Robin Wood Further Reading 93(2) Part II: The Contexts of Authorship 95(106) The Death of the Author (1968) 97(4) Roland Barthes The English Cine-Structuralists (1973) 101(9) Charles W. Eckert Alternatives to Auteurs (1973) 110(9) Graham Petrie Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema (1973) 119(8) Claire Johnston Refocusing Authorship in Women's Filmmaking (2003) 127(8) Angela Martin The Men with the Movie Cameras (1972) 135(5) Richard Koszarski Notes on a Screenwriter's Theory 1973 (1974) 140(8) Richard Corliss Who Makes the Movies? (1976) 148(10) Gore Vidal Script/Performance/Text: Performance Theory and Auteur Theory (1978) 158(9) Peter Lehman Studio Authorship, Corporate Art (2006) 167(13) Jerome Christensen The Producer as Auteur (2006) 180(10) Matthew Bernstein Authorship, Design, and Execution (1987) 190(11) Bruce Kawin Further Reading 200(1) Part III: Close Readings 201(122) Hitchcock's Imagery and Art (1977) 203(9) Maurice Yacowar John Ford's Young Mr Lincoln (1970) (excerpt) 212(16) Towards an Analysis of the Sirkian System (1972) 228(6) Paul Willemen My Name is Joseph H. Lewis (1983) 234(15) Paul Kerr Authorship as a Commodity: The Art Cinema and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1984) 249(6) Michael Budd The Place of Women in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh (1974) 255(8) Pam Cook Claire Johnston Female Authorship Reconsidered (The Case of Dorothy Arzner) (1990) (excerpt) 263(17) Judith Mayne Man's Favorite Sport?: The Action Films of Kathryn Bigelow (2004) 280(12) Barry Keith Grant Authorship and New Queer Cinema: The Case of Todd Haynes (2006) 292(12) Michael DeAngelis Twoness and the Film Style of Oscar Micheaux (1993) 304(13) J. Ronald Green Spike's Joint (1998) (excerpt) 317(6) S. Craig Watkins Further Reading 323