Critical origins. Authorial function and historical precedents -- Cahiers du Cinema and founding the discourse of auteur criticism: snapshots in time -- Andrew Sarris and the auteur re-evaluation of Hollywood -- Auteur concepts and problematics. Reconsidering the underpinnings of traditional auteur criticism -- Agency and authorship: forms of mediation -- Extending the issues of authorship: art cinema and the avant-garde -- The director in the classic Hollywood system. The hierarchy of directors and work relations -- Reconciling the director with creative contributors -- Reformulating authorial presence: the value of a neoformalist designation -- Triumphs, accommodations, victims and mavericks: 15 examples -- Cinephilia revisited. Cinephilia and its historical trajectory -- Reconstructing the sublime moment: a spectrum of films -- The changing face of Hollywood and the shifting sands of authorship since the 1970s -- From vision to branding -- Contemporary Hollywood directors and auteur slippage: illustrating -- The new breed of auteurs -- Auteur displacement in the digital age. The inheritance from the past -- The enclave of art cinema -- Old notions of authorship unhinged -- Revamping cinephilia in a postmodern climate -- Implications of the media revolution -- The last word
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-319) and index
