Film and Theory: An Anthology

I tend to think of a film with Greta Garbo in it as “a Garbo film”; I know nothing about Clarence Brown, who evidently directed seven of the films she appeared in. In an article published in Critical Quarterly in 1987, Rosalind Coward saw this as symptomatic of the problems associated with “ascribing authorship” in the areas of film and television (she sees the BBC as having actively promoted Dennis Potter as a “great television author”). “Dennis Potter and the question of the television author”, is the first of 44 articles gathered in Film and Theory, representing what the authors...