Visual authorship

Museum Tusculanum Press

2005

271 pages

Northern lights

8763501287

Agency in film, filmmaking, and reception / Torben Grodal -- The makers of movies: authors, subjects personalities, agents? / Casper Tybjerg -- Auteurs and their brains: cognition and creativity in the cinema / Patrick Colm Hogan -- Can involuntary contributions be authored? a note on the actor's art / Johannes Riis -- The making of an auteur: notes on the auteur theory and Lars von Trier / Peter Schepelern -- Frozen flows in von Trier's Oeuvre / Torben Grodal -- Reality under critical examination: Ole Palsbo's feature films / Birger Langkjaer -- Off with their heads! on Dennis Potter, authorship and auteurism / Bente Larsen -- Work of the genius or product of 'the genius of the system'? the tv auteur as a digital network phenomenon / Iben Thorving Laursen -- The game and its name: what is a game auteur? / Espen Aarseth

Visual Authorship is a collection of essays that provides a new approach to the study of authorship. The essays show how personal creativity is central, even in today's multifaceted media landscape. The role of individual creativity and authorship is discussed in relation to film, television, computer games, and internet media. Theories of cognition and emotion provide new tools for understanding visual aesthetics; they explain why artworks are created by individuals, not by discourses or ideologies; and they suggest that traditional tools like biography may be used to gain insight in visual aesthetics and stylistic change

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