The making of an auteur : notes on the auteur theory and Lars von Trier

  • When the concept of the auteur was coined in the 1950s and 1960s, it was an initiative to clarify the obscure matters of authorship in cinema. Because a film must necessarily be a collective work, understood as the result of a large number of creative contributions, it was often unclear who the decisive power behind a certain film was, who contributed the "distinctive quality". The control will usually belong to the director, the producer or the star (or all three in combination), but what singles out a given film could also come from the cinematographer, the scriptwriter, from the author of an adapted literary work, or from traditions in the studio or in the genre. Nothing can be taken for granted about a film's authorship, it can only be decided through a thorough analysis of each film's production process, an analysis that, in most cases, will be impossible to make. ...

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Author:Peter Schepelern
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1119702
ISBN:87-635-0128-7
ISSN:1601-829X
Parent Title (English):Visual authorship : Creativity and intentionality in media, Northern lights : film and media studies yearbook ; 2004
Publisher:Museum Tusculanum Press
Place of publication:Copenhagen
Editor:Torben Grodal, Bente Larsen, Iben Thorving Laursen
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of Completion:2004
Year of first Publication:2004
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2009/02/05
Page Number:64
First Page:103
Last Page:167
Note:
Signatur: 13.372.86
Source:In: Visual authorship, Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004, S. 103-167
HeBIS-PPN:435153331
Institutes:keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern
Dewey Decimal Classification:7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 790 Freizeitgestaltung, darstellende Künste, Sport
7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 791 Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk
Sammlungen:Sammlung Musik, Theater, Film / Literatur zum Film
Licence (German):License LogoArchivex. zur Lesesaalplatznutzung § 52b UrhG

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