Film Comment (1977) - Ideology, genre, auteur

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• magazine article: Ideology, genre, auteur
• author(s): Robin Wood
• journal: Film Comment (01/Jan/1977)
• issue: volume 13, issue 1, page 46
• journal ISSN: 0015-119X
• publisher: Film Society of Lincoln Center
• Sloan's Alfred Hitchcock: A Filmography and Bibliography (1995) — page 427, #495
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Andrew Britton, André Bazin, Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Henry Travers, Heterosexuality, Ideology, James Stewart, Marnie (1964), Motion pictures, New York City, New York, Personal relationships, Peter Wollen, Private enterprise. Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rebecca (1940), Robin Wood, Sally Benson, Santa Rosa, California, Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Spellbound (1945), Suspicion (1941), Thornton Wilder, Éric Rohmer

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Abstract

Montage theory enthrones editing as the essential creative act at the expense of other aspects of film; Bazin's Realist theory, seeking to right the balance, merely substitutes its own imbalance, downgrading montage and artifice; the revolutionary theory centered in Britain on Screen (but today very widespread) rejects-or at any rate seeks to "deconstruct"-Realist art in favor of the so-called "open text." Auteur theory, in its heyday, concentrated attention exclusively on the fingerprints, thematic or stylistic, of the individual artist; recent attempts to discuss the complete "filmic text" have tended to throw out ideas of personal authorship altogether.