- Title
- Introduction. Editors on auteurs: thoughts on auteurism from the frontier
- Creator
- Hamilton, Emma; Rolls, Alistair
- Relation
- Unbridling the Western Film Auteur: Contemporary, Transnational and Intertextual Explorations p. 1-24
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b13339
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- This edited collection explores and analyses a theoretical concept that – like the Western film genre itself – has been declared ‘dead’, only to rise up again in new and innovative ways as a framework through which to examine film and filmmakers. Auteur theory, and its usefulness as an analytical tool, has been a site of contestation since its inception in the late 1940s/1950s by French cinema theorists. Primarily characterized by the notion that, like any other art form, films can result from the ‘authorship’ of an individual – the director – auteur theory has been significant in elevating cinematic products once considered massified, ‘low’ culture and in reconceptualizing directors as legitimate artists capable of transcending potential constraints inherent in film production. This chapter will explore the development of auteur conceptualization and how that fits within contemporary developments in film theory and the Western.
- Subject
- auteur theory; auteurism; film; film theory; Western film genre
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1389304
- Identifier
- uon:32874
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781787071551
- Language
- eng
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