Film Auteur

An accessible introduction to the concept of the auteur (author) in film theory.Robert Kolker and David Wyatt provide readers with a history of auteur theory, from its initial origins in France in the late 1940s as an outgrowth of the cinematic theories of the French film critics and theorists Andre Bazin and Alexandre Astruc, to the canonizing work of American film critic Andrew Sarris in the 196...