Global Auteur

Once heralded and defined by the likes of François Truffaut and Andrew Sarris as a romantic figure of aesthetic individualism the auteur is reinvestigated here through a novel approach. Bringing established as well as emergent figures of world art cinema to the fore <i> The Global Auteur </i>shows how politics and philosophy are present in the works of these important filmmakers. They can be still seen leading a fight that their glorious predecessors seemed to have abandoned in the face of global capitalism and the market economy. Yet as the contributors show a new world calls for a new cinema and thus for new auteurs. Covering a range of global auteurs such as Lars von Trier Lav Diaz Lee Chang-dong and Abderrahmane Sissako <i>The Global Auteur </i>provides a much-needed reassessment of the film auteur for the global age.