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portada Self-Projection: The Director’S Image in art Cinema
Type
Physical Book
Language
English
Pages
213
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780816691241

Self-Projection: The Director’S Image in art Cinema

Linda Haverty Rugg (Author) · Univ Of Minnesota Pr · Paperback

Self-Projection: The Director’S Image in art Cinema - Linda Haverty Rugg

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Synopsis "Self-Projection: The Director’S Image in art Cinema"

In 1957, a decade before Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, François Truffaut called for a new era in which films would "resemble the person who made" them and be "even more personal" than an autobiographical novel. More than five decades on, it seems that Barthes has won the argument when it comes to most film critics. The cinematic author, we are told, has been dead for a long time. Yet Linda Haverty Rugg contends not only that the art cinema auteur never died, but that the films of some of the most important auteurs are intensely, if complexly, related to the lives and self-images of their directors. Self-Projection explores how nondocumentary narrative art films create alternative forms of collaborative self-representation and selfhood.The book examines the work of celebrated directors who plant autobiographical traces in their films, including Truffaut, Bergman, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Herzog, Allen, Almodóvar, and von Trier. It is not simply that these directors, and many others like them, make autobiographical references or occasionally appear in their films, but that they tie their films to their life stories and communicate that link to their audiences. Projecting a new kind of selfhood, these directors encourage identifications between themselves and their work even as they disavow such connections. And because of the collaborative and technological nature of filmmaking, the director's self-projection involves actors, audience, and the machines and institution of the cinema as well.Lively and accessible, Self-Projection sheds new light on the films of these iconic directors and on art cinema in general, ultimately showing how film can transform not only the autobiographical act but what it means to have a self.

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