Film Authorship in Contemporary Transmedia Culture: The Paratextual Lives of Asian Auteurs

Film Authorship in Contemporary Transmedia Culture explores the paratextual lives of Asian auteurs, examining their mediated past, present, and afterlife through textual, material, and performative practices. It highlights the importance of self-reflexive authorship in understanding the industry and the public.

Format: Hardback
Length: 270 pages
Publication date: 21 August 2023
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Film Authorship in Contemporary Transmedia Culture: The Paratextual Lives of Asian Auteurs is a book that explores the authorship of films in the transmedia era, where film directors have become public figures through various textual, material, and performative practices. The book draws on the concept of paratext and its related term, palimpsest, to examine the idea of self-reflexive authorship as a means of exploring the mediated past, present, and afterlife of East Asian filmmakers. The first part of the book focuses on materials related to film festivals, multi-platform distribution, and cinephile/fan creative practices, which have been created, rewritten, and shared to foster and problematize the reputations of selected filmmakers. The second part examines alternative modes of self-projections and creative productions that address the filmmakers' sense of selves and their relationships with the industry and the public. Throughout the book, discourses surrounding film authorship and East Asian cinema are revisited and expanded to highlight its multiple histories and possible futures.

Weight: 552g
Dimension: 241 x 162 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789462987531