Visual Authorship: Northern Lights fFlm and Media Studies Yearbook 2004

Visual Authorship is a collection of essays which offers a new approach to the study of authorship. The contributors point out that individual creativity is essential in the richly faceted media landscape of today. The individual creativity and the role of authorship are discussed in relation to film, television, computer games and the Internet. Theories of cognition and emotion offer new tools for the understanding of visual aesthetics; they explain why works of art are created by individuals and not by discourses and ideologies. Several contributors analyse in detail the works of Lars von Trier.

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Visual Authorship: Northern Lights fFlm and Media Studies Yearbook 2004

Visual Authorship is a collection of essays which offers a new approach to the study of authorship. The contributors point out that individual creativity is essential in the richly faceted media landscape of today. The individual creativity and the role of authorship are discussed in relation to film, television, computer games and the Internet. Theories of cognition and emotion offer new tools for the understanding of visual aesthetics; they explain why works of art are created by individuals and not by discourses and ideologies. Several contributors analyse in detail the works of Lars von Trier.

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Visual Authorship: Northern Lights fFlm and Media Studies Yearbook 2004

Visual Authorship: Northern Lights fFlm and Media Studies Yearbook 2004

Visual Authorship: Northern Lights fFlm and Media Studies Yearbook 2004

Visual Authorship: Northern Lights fFlm and Media Studies Yearbook 2004

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Visual Authorship is a collection of essays which offers a new approach to the study of authorship. The contributors point out that individual creativity is essential in the richly faceted media landscape of today. The individual creativity and the role of authorship are discussed in relation to film, television, computer games and the Internet. Theories of cognition and emotion offer new tools for the understanding of visual aesthetics; they explain why works of art are created by individuals and not by discourses and ideologies. Several contributors analyse in detail the works of Lars von Trier.


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ISBN-13: 9788763501286
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Publication date: 02/01/2005
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.46(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction     
 
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 Langkjær
 
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
 
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