Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema
Omnibus films bring together the contributions of two or more filmmakers. Does this make them inherently contradictory texts? How do they challenge critical categories in cinema studies? What are their implications for auteur theory?
As the first book-length exploration of internationally distributed, multi-director episode films, David Scott Diffrient’s Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema fills a considerable gap in the history of world cinema and aims to expand contemporary understandings of authorship, genre, narrative, and transnational production and reception. Delving into such unique yet representative case studies as If I Had a Million (1932), Forever and a Day (1943), Dead of Night (1945), Quartet (1948), Love and the City (1953), Boccaccio ’70, (1962), New York Stories (1989), Tickets (2005), Visions of Europe (2005), and Paris, je t’aime (2006), this book covers much conceptual ground and crosses narrative as well as national borders in much the same way that omnibus films do.
Omnibus Films is a particularly thought-provoking book for those working in the fields of auteur theory, film genre and transnational cinema, and is suitable for advanced students in Cinema Studies.

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Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema
Omnibus films bring together the contributions of two or more filmmakers. Does this make them inherently contradictory texts? How do they challenge critical categories in cinema studies? What are their implications for auteur theory?
As the first book-length exploration of internationally distributed, multi-director episode films, David Scott Diffrient’s Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema fills a considerable gap in the history of world cinema and aims to expand contemporary understandings of authorship, genre, narrative, and transnational production and reception. Delving into such unique yet representative case studies as If I Had a Million (1932), Forever and a Day (1943), Dead of Night (1945), Quartet (1948), Love and the City (1953), Boccaccio ’70, (1962), New York Stories (1989), Tickets (2005), Visions of Europe (2005), and Paris, je t’aime (2006), this book covers much conceptual ground and crosses narrative as well as national borders in much the same way that omnibus films do.
Omnibus Films is a particularly thought-provoking book for those working in the fields of auteur theory, film genre and transnational cinema, and is suitable for advanced students in Cinema Studies.

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Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema

Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema

by David Scott Diffrient
Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema

Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema

by David Scott Diffrient

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Omnibus films bring together the contributions of two or more filmmakers. Does this make them inherently contradictory texts? How do they challenge critical categories in cinema studies? What are their implications for auteur theory?
As the first book-length exploration of internationally distributed, multi-director episode films, David Scott Diffrient’s Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema fills a considerable gap in the history of world cinema and aims to expand contemporary understandings of authorship, genre, narrative, and transnational production and reception. Delving into such unique yet representative case studies as If I Had a Million (1932), Forever and a Day (1943), Dead of Night (1945), Quartet (1948), Love and the City (1953), Boccaccio ’70, (1962), New York Stories (1989), Tickets (2005), Visions of Europe (2005), and Paris, je t’aime (2006), this book covers much conceptual ground and crosses narrative as well as national borders in much the same way that omnibus films do.
Omnibus Films is a particularly thought-provoking book for those working in the fields of auteur theory, film genre and transnational cinema, and is suitable for advanced students in Cinema Studies.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780748695669
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 06/23/2014
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

David Scott Diffrient is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Colorado State University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Part I: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; 1. ‘Beginnings without Ends’: Conceptual Parameters and the Critical Discourses of Episodic Cinema; 2. A Cinema of Regulated Variety and Excess: Antecedents and Extensions of Episodic Cinema; 3. Key Concepts in Transauthorial Cinema: Abundance, Change, Containment, and Order; 4. Key Concepts in Film Studies: Audience, Authorship, Genre, and Nation; Part II: Get on the Omnibus: Case Studies in Transauthorial Cinema; 5. Wartime Consensus Pictures and the ‘Housing’ of History: From Forever and a Day to Dead of Night; 6. Three Cases of Maugham: Quartet, Trio, and Encore; 7. Episodic Erotics and the Politics of Place: From Love in the City to Love and Anger; 8. Collective Opposition, Political Participation, and Worldwide Competition: From Visions of Eight to Visions of Europe; 9. The Recent Revival of the Omnibus Film: From Paris, je t’aime to 11’09”01; Filmography; Notes; Index

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Accused as either "ramshackle" filmmaking or acclaimed for savvy "acuteness and prankishness," the under-appreciated "omnibus" film is rewardingly studied here by David Scott Diffrient. Described as a "meta-genre", Diffrient precisely and comprehensively discusses these films’ rich history and their transauthorial dynamic aesthetics. By doing so, Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema situates the unique place in film history that these films hold.

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Accused as either "ramshackle" filmmaking or acclaimed for savvy "acuteness and prankishness," the under-appreciated "omnibus" film is rewardingly studied here by David Scott Diffrient. Described as a "meta-genre", Diffrient precisely and comprehensively discusses these films’ rich history and their transauthorial dynamic aesthetics. By doing so, Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema situates the unique place in film history that these films hold.

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