Download or read book Theories of Authorship written by John Caughie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The film director or `auteur' has been central in film theory and criticism over the past thirty years. Theories of Authorship documents the major stages in the debate about film authorship, and introduces recent writing on film to suggest important ways in which the debate might be reconsidered.