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Harrod, Mary (2012) Review of 'Richard Linklater ' by David T. Johnson. Senses of Cinema, Issue 64 . ISSN 1443-4059
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Abstract
In her 2006 summary of the history of debates on authorship in general and in cinema in particular, Pam Cook observes that ‘the function of the author/artist at one time limited to art cinema has extended to popular commercial cinema’ and moreover that: ‘Art cinema could provide a means of critical entry into commercial cinema, not in terms of the confirmation of traditional auteur analysis, but in the interests of understanding the relationship between art cinema and commercial cinema in order to question the conventional division between “art” and “entertainment”’ (1). By ‘traditional’ auteur analysis Cook means the kind of ahistorical approaches associated with the New Wave politique des auteurs, long since out of favour, that accorded to the film director a God-like status transcending industrial and other contextual circumscriptions. Instead, she emphasises the rise of the notion of the author as marketing category in contemporary scholarship. However, her comments about the usefulness of the art cinema author paradigm, most closely associated with the work of David Bordwell, for approaching more mainstream cinemas are acutely relevant to the films of Richard Linklater and to David T. Johnson’s unapologetically auteurist analysis of them
Item Type: | Book Review | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Senses of Cinema | ||||
Publisher: | Senses of Cinema Inc. | ||||
ISSN: | 1443-4059 | ||||
Book Title: | Richard Linklater | ||||
Official Date: | September 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Issue 64 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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