Directed by Allen Smithee
By: Jeremy Braddock and Stephen Hock, editors ; foreword by Andrew Sarris.
Contributors: Braddock, Jeremy.; Hock, Stephen.
Series: Commerce and mass culture series
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Production and direction; Auteur theory (Motion pictures)
Notes: Includes filmography (p. 289-291).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This book represents the collective labors of the Allen Smithee Group at the University of Pennsylvania"--Acknowledgments.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I The Forging of Smithee Studies; title: 1. The Specter of Illegitimacy in an Age of Disillusion and Crisis Jeremy Braddock and Stephen Hock; title: 2. Artificial Auteurism and the Political Economy of the Allen Smithee Case Craig Saper; title: 3. The Automatic Auteur; or, A Certain Tendency in Film Criticism Robert B. Ray; title: II Smithee Studies; title: 4. Allen Smithee's Death of a Gunfighter "A Casualty of Hollywood's Excluded Middle" Donald E. Pease; title: 5. Smithee in The Twilight Zone: The People v. John Landis et al. and Other Trials of Authorship Jessie Labov; title: 6. Signateurism and the Case of Allen Smithee; title: Christian Keathley; title: 7. Smithee's Incorporation Jeremy Braddock; title: 8. This Is Too Big for One Old Name: Hitchcock and Smithee in the Signature Centrifuge Stephen Hock; title: III Smithee Suggests; title: 9. The Fake Americans of the Italian Cinema: A Marketing Strategy or a Strategy for Interpretive Cooperation?; title: Laura Parigi; title: 10. The Cheerless Art of Industry: Marcel Duchamp and the Smithee Readymade Jonathan P Eburne; title: 11. A for Auteurand F for Fake: A Case for Raoul Walsh; title: Tom Conley; title: Afterword. Bastard Auteurism and Academic Auteurs: A Reflexive Reading of Smithee Studies; title: James F English.