Notas sobre a Noção de Autoria no Cinema

Abstract

This article discusses ways of thinking about the issue of authorship in film, going beyond the notion of collective art, but stopping short of the notion based on the idea of an individual’s intentional and sovereign activity. At the outset, I situate historically the problem of authorship in the realm of film discussions. Then, by confronting those with the analysis of different works, I propose other ways toreflect on the concept. I do that through Foucaudean readings, but based particularly on the concept of creation developed by George Steiner in his work Grammars of Creation (2003). I start from the denial of the fixed unit of authorship and go through to the creation of personae: pulsating lives in the materiality of filmic images, beyond the limits of the “real”.

Keywords

• Film
• Child
• Authorship