TY - CHAP A1 - Schepelern, Peter A2 - Grodal, Torben A2 - Larsen, Bente A2 - Laursen, Iben Thorving T1 - The making of an auteur : notes on the auteur theory and Lars von Trier T2 - Visual authorship : Creativity and intentionality in media, Northern lights : film and media studies yearbook ; 2004 N2 - 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. ... Y1 - 2004 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10828 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1119702 SN - 87-635-0128-7 SN - 1601-829X N1 - Signatur: 13.372.86 SP - 103 EP - 167 PB - Museum Tusculanum Press CY - Copenhagen ER -