This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work is contextualised within this timely investigation into the shifting relationship…
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This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work is contextualised within this timely investigation into the shifting relationship…
Auteurism - the idea that a director of a film is its source of meaning and should retain creative control over the finished product - has been one of film studies' most important paradigms ever since the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the adoption of the…
This volume contains profile-style essays on five of the most popular or controversial directors - Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard, the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke and François Ozon.
This volume contains profile-style essays on five of the most popular or controversial directors - Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard, the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke and François Ozon.
Staging and style -- Feuillade, or, Storytelling -- Mizoguchi, or, Modulation -- Angelopoulos, or, Melancholy -- Hou, or, Constraints -- Staging and stylistics.
Figures traced in light: on cinematic staging
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A film tells its story not only through dialogue and actors' performances, but also through the director's control of movement and shot design. This is a detailed consideration of how cinematic staging carries the story, expresses emotion, and beguiles the audience through picto…
A film tells its story not only through dialogue and actors' performances, but also through the director's control of movement and shot design. This is a detailed consideration of how cinematic staging carries the story, expresses emotion, and beguiles the audience through picto…
The figure of the author has been central in film theory and criticism over the past thirty years. John Caughie documents the major stages in the debate about film authorship, and introduces recent writing on film to suggest important ways in which the debate might be reconsider…