Film and Theory: An Anthology

RR 2000/362 Film and Theory: An Anthology Edited by Robert Stam and Toby Miller Blackwell Oxford and New Maiden, MA 2000 xviii + 862 pp. ISBN 0 631 20625 6; 0 631 20626 4 paperback L65.00 ($72.95); L16.99 ($39.95) paperback

Keyword Film

I tend to think of a film with Greta Garbo in it as "a Garbo film"; I know nothing about Clarence Brown, who evidently directed seven of the films she appeared in. In an article published in Critical Quarterly in 1987, Rosalind Coward saw this as symptomatic of the problems associated with "ascribing authorship" in the areas of film and television (she sees the BBC as having actively promoted Dennis Potter as a "great television author"). "Dennis Potter and the question of the television author", is the first of 44 articles gathered in Film and Theory, representing what the authors consider "some of the most interesting and influential work...