Performing authorship
self-inscription and corporeality in the cinema
by Cecilia Sayad
"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.
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Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema
2013, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
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Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema
2013, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
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Performing authorship: self-inscription and corporeality in the cinema
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