Theories of Authorship

Part 1 Auteurism; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part A Auteurism in theory; Chapter 2 M. H. Abrams: 'Literature as a revelation of personality' (extract); Chapter 3 Edward Buscombe: 'Ideas of authorship'; Part B The theory in practice; Chapter 4 Cahiers du Cinema; Chapter 5 Movie; Chapter 6 Andrew Sarris; Part C Dossier on John Ford; Chapter 7 Louis Marcorelles: 'Ford of the movies'; Chapter 8 Lindsay Anderson: 'The Searchers'; Chapter 9 Andrew Sarris: 'The Searchers'; Chapter 10 Robin Wood: 'Shall we gather at the river?; the late films of John Ford'; Chapter 11 Peter Wollen (Lee Russell): 'John Ford'; Chapter 12 Jean-Louis Comolli: 'Signposts on the trail'; Chapter 13 Jean Narboni: 'Casting out the eights: John Ford's Seven Women'; Part 2 Auteur - structuralism; Chapter 14 Introduction; Chapter 15 Claude Levi-Strauss: 'The structural study of myth' (extract); Chapter 16 Geoffrey Nowell-Smith: Visconti(extract); Chapter 17 Peter Wollen: 'The auteur theory' (extract); Chapter 18 Charles Eckert: 'The English cine-structuralists'; Chapter 19 Brain Henderson: 'Critique of cine-structuralism' (Part I); Chapter 20 Jean-Pierre Oudart: 'Conclusion to Cahiers du Cinema editors' "John Ford's Young Mr Lincoln"' (extract); Chapter 21 Pierre Macherey: 'Literary analysis: the tomb of structures' (extract); Part 3 Fiction of the author/author of the fiction; Chapter 22 Introduction; Chapter 23 Roland Barthes: 'The death of the author'; Chapter 24 Stephen Heath: 'Comment on, "The idea of authorship"'; Chapter 25 Geoffrey Nowell-Smith: 'Six authors in pursuit of The Searchers' (extract); Chapter 26 Christian Metz: 'History/discourse: a note on two voyeurisms'; Chapter 27 Geoffrey Nowell-Smith: 'A note on "history/discourse"'; Chapter 28 Sandy Flitterman: 'Woman, desire, and the look: feminism and the enunciative apparatus in cinema'; Chapter 29 Nick Browne: 'The rhetoric of the specular text with reference to Stagecoach'; Chapter 30 Jean-Pierre Oudart: 'The absent held of the Author'; Chapter 31 Pam Cook: 'The point of self-expression in avant-garde film'; Chapter 32 Michel Foucault: 'What is an author?' (extract);