Date of Award
5-26-2009
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Jessica Berry - Chair
Second Advisor
Sebastian Rand
Third Advisor
Melissa Merritt
Abstract
The multiple authorship view for film is the claim that multiple authors exist for almost any given film. This view is a recent development in opposition to the longstanding single authorship view which holds that there is only one author for every film, usually the director. One of the most often-cited reasons in support of the multiple authorship claim is that multiple authorship views more successfully explain the following fact about filmmaking better than single authorship views: filmmakers’ intentions sometimes conflict with each other during the production of a film. However, since multiple authorship views cannot adequately explain how a single filmic utterance can result from conflicting intentions, I want to argue that the single authorship view should be reinstated in those special cases where two or more agents are involved in the production of a filmic utterance and where the intentions of those agents are incompatible.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1059791
Recommended Citation
Hager, Steven Christopher, "An Incompatibility between Intentionalism and Multiple Authorship in Film." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2009.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1059791