The global auteur : the politics of authorship in 21st century cinema / edited by Seung-hoon Jeong, Jeremi Szaniawski. - New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. - xvii, 390 p. : Ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction (Jeremi Szaniawski, and Seung-hoon Jeong) -- The Global Author: Control, Creative Constraints and Performative Self Contradiction (Thomas Elsaesser) -- Abderrahmane Sissako: On the Politics of African Auteurs (Rachel Gabara) -- Godard's Stereoscopic Essay: Thinking in and with Adieu au langage (Rick Warner) -- Michael Winterbottom: A Self-Effacing Auteur? (William Brown) -- Provocation and Perversity: Lars von Trier's Cinematic Anti-Philosophy (Robert Sinnerbrink) -- From Political Engagement to Politics of Abjection in Polish Auteur Cinema: The Case of Wojtek Smarzowski (Izabela Kalinowska) -- Of Intruders (and Guests): The Films of Michael Haneke and Aleksey Balabanov (Jeremi Szaniawski) -- Contemporary Romanian Auteurs: Politics, Irony and Reflevixity (Dominique Nasta) -- Fatih Akin's Moral Geometry (Dudley Andrew) -- Richard Linklater's Post-Nostalgia and the Temporal Logic of Neoliberalism (Dan Hassler-Forest) -- 'Black in White': Language, World-making and the American Contract in the Cinema of Quentin Tarantino (John Pitseys) -- Battle with History: Carlos Reygadas and the Cinema of Being (Michael Cramer) -- The Art of Encounter and (Self)Fabulation: Eduardo Coutinho's Cinema of Bodies and Words (Consuelo Lins) -- Shareable Cinema: The Politics of Abbas Kiarostami -- (Nico Baumbach) -- Migration and Contemporary Indian Cinema: A Consideration of Anurag Kashyap and la politique des auteurs in the Times of Globalization (Kaushik Bhaumik) -- Space and Time in the Land of the End of History (Marco Grosoli) -- Revisiting Jia Zhangke: Individuality, Subjectivity, and Autonomy in Contemporary Chinese Independent Cinema (Victor Fan) -- Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Dis/continuity, and the Ghostly Ethics of Meaning and Auteurship (Aaron Gerow) -- A Generational Spectrum of Global Korean Auteurs: Political Matrix and Ethical Potential (Seung-hoon Jeong).

"A thorough and robust reassessment of the auteur figure in the age of global cinema"--

9781501312625 (hardback)


Auteur theory (Motion pictures)
Motion pictures--Production and direction.
Motion pictures--History and criticism.--21st century
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production.

PN 1995.9 / G562 2016

791.4302