Questions of authorship : some comments on David Bordwell’s narration in the fiction film
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Projections: the journal for movies and mind
Publication Date
Summer 6-1-2016
Volume
10
Issue
1
First Page
12
Last Page
16
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Keywords
Authorship, David Bordwell, Sarah Kozloff, Mon Oncle d’Amérique, Narration, Quotation, Resnais
Abstract
These comments concern Bordwell’s explicit and implicit claims about cinematic authorship in his 1985 Narration in the Fiction Film. Distinctions are drawn between causal and attributionist conceptions of authorship, and between actualist and fictionalist views about the spectator’s attitude toward authorship. A key question concerns the autonomy or independence of a viewer’s competent uptake of story and narration, as opposed to its dependence on knowledge of authorship or authorial design. The example of cinematic quotation in Resnais’s Mon oncle d’Amérique is used to illustrate the pertinence of the latter option.
DOI
10.3167/proj.2016.100104
Print ISSN
19349688
E-ISSN
19349696
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Livingston, P. (2016). Questions of authorship: Some comments on David Bordwell’s narration in the fiction film. Projections, 10(1), 12-16. doi: 10.3167/proj.2016.100104