Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema

by David Scott Diffrient

Book Overview

Omnibus films bring together the contributions of two or more filmmakers. Does this make them inherently contradictory texts? How do they challenge critical categories in cinema studies? What are their implications for auteur theory?
As the first book-length exploration of internationally distributed, multi-director episode films, David Scott Diffrient's Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema fills a considerable gap in the history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748695664
• ISBN13: 9780748695669
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"