Written work
Film
CONTACT DAVID
Jean-Luc
Godard and the endurance of the auteur
London College of Printing, 2002
This study followed the debate and criticism surrounding the existence
of the auteur in film. There have been many engagements with auteurism,
and it has come to stand as an active strand of cinema against which polemical
discussions are represented and argued. Roland Barthes's claim of the
death of the author is seen as academic ideology losing touch with filmmaking
practice and forms the hinge around this dissertation. The author-function
is arguably the most significant component of film discourse in recent
times, and the crediting of one clearly creative, authoritarian and personal
voice to a film - or indeed a collection of films - is of great interest
in a situation where academia has denied the author's existence.
The principles and questions explored in this study can also be talked about within the area of graphic design today. With a surge in 'no-brief' and 'self-authored' work undertaken by many of today's practising designers, the role of a graphic designer and indeed of graphic design as a practise is called upon to be discussed.