Once heralded and defined by the likes of François Truffaut and Andrew Sarris as a romantic figure of aesthetic individualism, the auteur is reinvestigated here through a novel approach. Bringing established as well as emergent figures of world art cinema to the fore, The Global Auteur shows how politics and philosophy are present in the works of these important filmmakers. They can be still seen leading a fight that their glorious predecessors seemed to have abandoned in the face of global capitalism and the market economy. Yet, as the contributors show, a new world calls for a new cinema, and thus for new auteurs. Covering a range of global auteurs such as Lars von Trier, Lav Diaz, Lee Chang-dong and Abderrahmane Sissako, The Global Auteur provides a much-needed reassessment of the film auteur for the global age.

Seung-hoon Jeong is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE. He has worked and published on theoretical issues in diverse modes, areas, and periods of cinema. His current research on global cinema explores a variety of global phenomena around cosmopolitanism, terrorism, network, ecology, and catastrophe. Jeong received Korea's Cine21 Film Criticism Award (2003), a Domitor Essay Award on early cinema (2007), and the SCMS Dissertation Award (2012). He wrote Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Media (2013), co-translated Jacques Derrida's Acts of Literature in Korean (2013), and is co-editing A Companion to Korean Cinema.

Jeremi Szaniawski received his PhD in Film and Slavic Studies from Yale University, USA. He currently teaches in the department of film and visual studies at Korea National University of Arts in Seoul, Republic of Korea. He is the editor of Directory of World Cinema: Belgium and the author of The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox (both 2014), as well as the translator, into French, of Thomas Elsaesser's and Malte Hagener's Cinema and the Senses (from the English, 2011) and Alexander Sokurov's V tsentre okeana (from Russian, 2015). His current research interests include contemporary Polish cinema as well as an updating of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of/through cinema to the 21st century. Szaniawski is also an independent, award-winning filmmaker.

Introduction (Jeremi Szaniawski, Korea National University of the Arts, Republic of Korea, and Seung-hoon Jeong, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)

Part 1: World Wide Web of Auteurs
Chapter 1. Of Certain Tendencies in Contemporary Cinema (Jeremi Szaniawski, Korea National University of Arts, Republic of Korea)

Part 2. Auteurs in Europe
Chapter 2. Authorship between Creativity and Control (Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Chapter 3. Cinema of Cruelty: von Trier as Philosophe Maudit (Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University, Australia)
Chapter 4. Refiguring Auteurism through Essayism: Late Kluge, Late Godard (Rick Warner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Chapter 5. Michael Winterbottom: A Self-Effacing Auteur? (William Brown, University of Roehampton, UK)
Chapter 6. Fatih Akin and the Geometry of World Encounters (Dudley Andrew, Yale University, USA)
Chapter 7. Nuri Bilge Ceylan: A Twenty-first Century Humanist Auteur (James Harvey-Davitt, Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
Chapter 8. Loafers and Drivers (Fredric Jameson, Duke University, USA)
Chapter 9. Politics and Irony: Spectacular Mise en Abyme in Contemporary Romanian Cinema (Dominique Nasta, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Part 3: Auteurs in Americas
Chapter 10. Richard Linklater's Post-Nostalgia and the Politics of Temporality in the Context of Neoliberalism (Dan Hassler-Forest, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Chapter 11. Flesh for Money: Quentin Tarantino and American Contractualism (John Pitseys, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
Chapter 12. Carlos Reygadas' Mexico: the Political and Aesthetic Legacies of Cinematic Modernism (Michael Cramer, Purchase College, USA)
Chapter 13. On Eduardo Coutinho (tentative) (Robert Stam, New York University, USA)

Part 4. Auteurs in Asia
Chapter 14. Shareable Cinema: The Politics of Abbas Kiarostami (Nico Baumbach, Columbia University, USA)
Chapter 15. Auteurs, Subalterns and Troubled Men: Anurag Kashyap and Contemporary Indian Cinema (Kaushik Bhaumik, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Chapter 16. Lav Diaz: Space and Time in the Land of the End of History (Marco Grosoli, University of Kent, UK)
Chapter 17. Relocating Jia Zhangke: Authorial Relationships in Contemporary Chinese Independent Cinema (Victor Fan, King's College London, UK)
Chapter 18. Kurosawa Kiyoshi and the Spectre of Cinema and Auteurship (Aaron Gerow, Yale University, USA)
Chapter 19. A Generational Spectrum of Global Korean Auteurs (Seung-hoon Jeong, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)

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