The Global Auteur

The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema

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Edited by Seung-hoon Jeong and Jeremi Szaniawski

Type

Essays

Subject

General

Keywords

auteur cinema, global, 21st century

Publishing date

2016

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 416 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-5013-1262-5

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Book Presentation:
Once heralded and defined by the likes of François Truffaut and Andrew Sarris as a romantic figure of aesthetic individualism, the auteur is reinvestigated here through a novel approach. Bringing established as well as emergent figures of world art cinema to the fore, The Global Auteur shows how politics and philosophy are present in the works of these important filmmakers. They can be still seen leading a fight that their glorious predecessors seemed to have abandoned in the face of global capitalism and the market economy. Yet, as the contributors show, a new world calls for a new cinema, and thus for new auteurs. Covering a range of global auteurs such as Lars von Trier, Lav Diaz, Lee Chang-dong and Abderrahmane Sissako, The Global Auteur provides a much-needed reassessment of the film auteur for the global age.

About the authors:
Seung-hoon JeongisAssistant Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi. He wrote Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Media and co-translated Jacques Derrida's Acts of Literature into Korean (both 2013).Jeremi Szaniawski is Assistant Professor of comparitive literature and film studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. He is the author of The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox (2014) and the co-editor of Directory of World Cinema: Belgium (2014) and The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema(2016).

Press Reviews:
This ambitious collection fills a glaring gap in studies of cinematic authorship in the twentieth-first century. It was about time for the creative contribution of the film director to be reassessed from a global perspective, away from hierarchical canons and in light of the radical changes entailed to film production by the widespread use of the digital technology. In the age of social media, where the individual merges into the general and anyone can 'author' a film, the role of the battered but resilient auteur may be, as the editors rightly say, more crucial and relevant than ever.
Lúcia Nagib, Professor in Film, University of Reading, UK

As we plunge into the second century of cinema, this terrific collection of essays reckons with not only the persistence of auteurism but its resurgence in the context of global cinema. Framed by the editors' superb introduction, The Global Auteur features a brilliant roster of scholars whose essays, ranging across an admirably broad range of filmmakers, finally helps us to understand the work of art cinema in our era of digital reproduction.
Gregory Flaxman, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Director of Global Cinema Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Once a dramatic new critical perspective and later declared a moribund leftover of romanticism, auteurs and auteurism today have become-as this outstanding and wide-ranging collection reminds us-more vibrant and complex than ever before.
Timothy Corrigan, Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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