Performing authorship
Subtitle: self-inscription and corporeality in the cinema
By: Cecilia Sayad
Series: Tauris world cinema series; Tauris world cinema series
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781780760056; 9781780760063
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy; Auteur theory (Motion pictures)
Description: "The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histories of production demonstrating its pitfalls. In an era defined by the instability of identities and the recycling of works, Performing Authorship offers a refreshingly new take on the cinematic auteur, proposing that the challenges that once accelerated this figure's critical demise should instead pump new life into it. Performing Authorship is an illuminating analysis of films by Jean-Luc Godard, Woody Allen, Agnes Varda, Orson Welles, Jean Rouch, Eduardo Coutinho and Sarah Turner that shows directors shifting between opposite movements towards authorial assertion and divestiture, palpability and disappearance, exposure and masking. In making this journey, Cecilia Sayad argues, the film author is not necessarily at the work's origin, nor does it constitute the end product. What the new concept of performing authorship describes is the making and unmaking of a subject"--Publisher website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Performance, corporeality and the borders of the film; title: The author and the frame : writing, painting and the essay film; title: The author in the world : trance, presence and documentary filmmaking; title: The author in-between : fools, stand-ups and fictional narratives; title: Conclusion; title: Filmography; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.