SELF

1957, a decade before Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, François Truffaut called for a new era in which films would resemble the person who made them and be even more personal than an autobiographical novel. More than five decades on, it seems that Barthes has won the argument when it comes to most film critics. The cinematic author, we are told, has been dead for a long ti me. Yet Linda Haverty Rugg contends not only that the art cinema auteur never died, but that the films of some of the most important auteurs are i...[Read more]