Auteur Theory and My Son John

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de James Morrison

Type: Essays
Sujet: One Film > My Son John
Mots Clés: Leo McCarey, auteur cinema, theory
Année d'édition: 2018
Editeur: Bloomsbury Academic
Collection: Film Theory in Practice
Langue: anglais

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Paperback • 200 pages
5 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm)

ISBN

978-1-5013-1174-1

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Description de l'ouvrage:
The newest volume in the Film Theory in Practice Series, Auteur Theory and My Son John offers a concise introduction to authorship and auteur theory in jargon-free language. The book goes on to show this theory can be deployed to interpret Leo McCarey's notorious but undervalued film My Son John, which critics deemed a clear-cut failure, and the auteurists declared a masterpiece.

James Morrison traces the development of auteur theory through its emergence in the pages of the French film journal Cahiers du cinéma and the complex permutations it undergoes subsequently. This history will help students and scholars who are eager to learn more about this important area of film theory. The analysis of My Son John shows how auteur theory enables modes of interpretation and discovers levels of meaning otherwise unavailable.

À propos de l'auteur :
Todd McGowan is Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author of 15 books, including Universality and Identity Politics (2020), Emancipation After Hegel (2019), and Capitalism and Desire (2016). He is the series editor of Film Theory in Practice (Bloomsbury), and co-series editor (with Slavoj Žižek and Adrian Johnston) of Diaeresis (Northwestern University Press). He is also the host of the podcast Why Theory (with Ryan Engley).

Revue de Presse:
"Brilliant … [a] superb history and analysis of auteurist criticism." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Cineaste

"Reading My Son John both as an instance of the Red Scare-era ‘film rouge’ and a fine-grained text that generates meaning in the smallest gesture of stay Helen Hayes, leaves little doubt as to the proper value-even in this empathetic, troubling, mutilated picture-of McCarey’s artistry." - Nick Pinkerton, Film Comment

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