Out-siders: Auteurs in Place.

Media Authorship;Cultural Geography;Auteur Studies;Film Studies;American Cinema and the City;Urban Studies;Screen Arts and Cultures;American and Canadian Studies;Humanities (General);Humanities;Screen Arts and Cultures

Koob, Nathan B.Fischer, Lucy ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Media Authorship;    Cultural Geography;    Auteur Studies;    Film Studies;    American Cinema and the City;    Urban Studies;    Screen Arts and Cultures;    American and Canadian Studies;    Humanities (General);    Humanities;    Screen Arts and Cultures;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

Out-Siders: Auteurs in Place, incorporates media authorship theory, cultural geography and ethnographic methods to examine media authorship and its functioning in relationship to place (specific local practices and identities in a given location). More specifically, I focus on filmmakers with distinct and consistent relationships to urban places who have either accepted or self-applied the ;;auteur” label. By ;;auteur” I mean a culturally recognized author of a media text. I study authorship through examining the process of making texts, instead of focusing on a singular authorial agency. Studying authorship, then, becomes less about assigning credit to an individual and instead a process of accounting for authorial practices and functions amongst larger production strategies. I argue that auteurs self-identify, manage and sustain their authorial images through relationships to places. All three of the filmmakers examined in case studies use cities, and places within cities, as molding, sustenance and protection for their maverick authorial identities. Chapter 2 looks at the lifelong relationship between John Waters and Baltimore, MD, where he is known as the ultimate hometown hero. Residents throughout the city refer to him as its ;;true” symbol. Chapter 3 examines Robert Altman’s nomadic yet focused attention to place throughout his career. On location shoots Altman and his team consistently worked with communities instead of just in them, transitioning him from outsider to neighborly friend. Finally, Chapter 4 studies Robert Rodriguez’s private industrial uses of Austin, TX. While he does not represent Austin in his films, his production practices do productively align with the cultural environment that surrounds him. The diverse relationships represented here shows us both the mutability of authorship but also its importance. These three filmmakers all base their careers on negotiating their authorial identity through place in distinct ways. Similarly, the cities all cultivate lively cultural identities in relationship to these filmmakers’ associations with them. Attention to place provides a way to examine how auteurs attempt to control their own author-identity and how this identity becomes accepted, submerged, altered and dismantled by communities. This project utilizes archival research and textual analysis as well as site analysis and ethnographic interviews.