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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782383003321

Autore

Maule Rosanna

Titolo

Beyond auteurism [[electronic resource] ] : new directions in authorial film practices in France, Italy and Spain since the 1980s / / Rosanna Maule

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, USA, : Intellect, c2008

ISBN

1-281-78604-7

9786611786045

1-84150-255-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

302.2343

791.4302330922

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Europe

Cinematography - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The 'Death of Cinema' and the Institutionalization of the Author; Chapter 1: The Film Author and the Survival of European Cinema; Chapter 2: The Middle Generation: Maurice Pialat, Gianni Amelio, and Víctor Erice; Chapter 3: The Difficult Legacy of the Nouvelle Vague: Olivier Assayas and French Film Authors at the End of Auteurism; Part Two: The Film Author in the New Audio-visual System

Chapter 4: For an Impure Cinema: Gabriele Salvatores and the Hybrid Nature of Film Authorship in Contemporary Italian Cinema Chapter 5: A Different Type of Cinephilia: Alejandro Amenábar and the New Generation of Spanish Film Authors; Chapter 6: Made in Europa: Luc Besson and the Question of Cultural Exception in Post-auteur France; Part Three: The Female Author in the Era of Post-feminism; Chapter 7: Auteurism and Women's Cinema in France, Italy and Spain; Chapter 8: Female Authors and Gendered Identity in Film: Claire Denis's Post-subjective Representation

Chapter 9: Feminine Matters: Francesca Archibugi and the



Reconfiguration of Women in the Private Sphere Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Beyond Auteurism is a comprehensive study of nine film authors from France, Italy and Spain who since the 1980's have blurred the boundaries between art-house and mainstream, and national and transnational film production. Maule examines how the individuals have maintained a dialectical relationship with the authorial tradition of the national cinema to which each belongs. In considering this tradition, Maule seeks to illustrate that the film author is not only the most important symbol of European cinema's cultural tradition and commitment, but is also a crucial part of Europe's efforts to...