The Global Auteur The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema [Hardcover]

Once heralded and defined by the likes of Fran?ois Truffaut and Andrew Sarris as a romantic figure of aesthetic individualism, the auteur is reinvestigated here through a novel approach. Bringing established as well as emergent figures of world art cinema to the fore,The Global Auteurshows how politics and philosophy are present in the works of these important filmmakers. They can be still seen leading a fight that their glorious predecessors seemed to have abandoned in the face of global capitalism and the market economy. Yet, as the contributors show, a new world calls for a new cinema, and thus for new auteurs. Covering a range of global auteurs such as Lars von Trier, Lav Diaz, Lee Chang-dong and Abderrahmane Sissako,The Global Auteurprovides a much-needed reassessment of the film auteur for the global age.

Seung-hoon Jeongis Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi. He wroteCinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Mediaand co-translated Jacques Derrida'sActs of Literatureinto Korean (both 2013).

Jeremi Szaniawskiis the editor ofDirectory of World Cinema: Belgiumand the author ofThe Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox(both 2014), as well as the translator, into French, of Thomas Elsaesser's and Malte Hagener'sFilm Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses(2011) and Alexander Sokurov'sV tsentre okeana(2015).

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Notes on the Contributors

Introduction
(Jeremi Szaniawski, Korea National University of the Arts, Republic of Korea, and Seung-hoon Jeong, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)

Chapter 1The Global Author: Control, Creative Constraints and Performative Self Contradiction
(Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Chapter 2Abderrahmane Sissako: On the Politics of African Auteurs
(Rachel Gabara,University of GeorglóS