More Film Authorship Studies: Romero, Welles, Portillo, Mamet, and the studio system

George A. Romero, Daddy of the Dead (a Wired.com video)

Film Studies For Free brings you some more great essays on film authorship (a favourite topic at this here blog), following the serendipitous discovery that a special issue on that subject by the (normally) subscription only periodical The Velvet Light Trap was chosen to be that journal's free online sample.


Do also check out FSFF's earlier related posts if this is a topic of particular interest: On Auteurism and Film Authorship Theories, film authorship Orson Welles. 

The Velvet Light Trap Number 57, Spring 2006 Special Issue: Authorship

• Introduction
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• Joe Kember, The Cinema of Affections: The Transformation of Authorship in British Cinema before 1907
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• Jerome Christensen, Studio Authorship, Warner Bros., and The Fountainhead
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• Brooke Rollins, "Some Kind of a Man": Orson Welles as Touch of Evil's Masculine Auteur
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• Matt Becker, A Point of Little Hope: Hippie Horror Films and the Politics of Ambivalence
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• Yannis Tzioumakis, Marketing David Mamet: Institutionally Assigned Film Authorship in Contemporary American Cinema
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• Mónica F. Torres, Exorcizing/Exercising Treachery: Robust Subjectivity in Lourdes Portillo's The Devil Never Sleeps [Access article in HTML] [Access article in PDF]

• Anna Notaro, Technology in Search of an Artist: Questions of Auteurism/Authorship and the Contemporary Cinematic Experience
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