The Life of the Author

by Sarah Kozloff

When Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault proclaimed the "death of the author" fifty years ago, they did so in the name of freedom. They could never have foreseen that its indiscriminate embrace by many film theorists would turn the anti-authorship stance into a restrictive orthodoxy. Sarah Kozloff daringly advocates a new paradigm, a theory of film authorship that takes into account flesh-and-blood filmmakers, including their biographies, their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927852005
• ISBN13: 9781927852002
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Caboose
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher