Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader offers students an introductory and comprehensive view of perhaps the most central concept in film studies. This unique anthology addresses the aesthetic and historical debates surrounding auteurship while providing author criticism and analysis in practice.Examines a number of mainstream and established directors, including John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, Frank Capra, Kathryn Bigelow, and Spike LeeFeatures historically important, foundational texts as well as contemporary piecesIncludes numerous student features, such as a general editor's introduction, short prefaces to each of the sections, bibliography, alternative tables of contents, and boxed featuresEach essay deliberately focuses across film makers’ oeuvres, rather than on one specific film, to enable lecturers to have flexibility in constructing their syllabi Read more ISBN10 1405153342 ISBN13 978-1405153348 Edition 1st Language English Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Dimensions 7.38 x 0.78 x 9.25 inches Item Weight 1.66 pounds Print length 344 pages Publication date February 19, 2008