The Film Auteur: Angles of Vision - Paperback

by Robert P. Kolker (Author), David Wyatt (Author)

An accessible introduction to the concept of the auteur (author) in film theory.

Author Biography

Robert P. Kolker is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, United States. He is the author/editor of several books on film including The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies (2008), The Cultures of American Film (2014), The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema (2016), Film, Form, and Culture, 5th edition, with Marsha Gordon (2024), Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of his Final Film, with Nathan Abrams (2019) and Kubrick: An Odyssey, with Nathan Abrams (2025).

David Wyatt is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, United States. He is author of several books, including, Five Fires: Race, Catastrophe, and the Shaping of California (1999), Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature (2010), Hemingway, Style, and the Art of Emotion (2015), and Afterlife: The Strange Fate of Literary Remains (2025).