Identify how Foucault s notion of authorship can be applied to literature music or film illustrating
This essay will attempt to explain Foucault’s notion of authorship from his article ‘What is an Author? ... In the above extract Foucault outlines his theory that an author’s name has a meaning other than just a name. An author’s name represents a whole personal and unique style. According to Foucault’s concept of authorship when we think of a certain author we do not think of the person, but of the work the author has produced. An author’s name evokes a reaction from us, as through our knowledge of the author and his work we come to have expectations from the author, whether they are realised or not. Foucault’s theory of authorship stems from a previous idea (incepted by a group of intellectuals writing for Cahiers Du Cinéma in the 1950s who later became “New Wave” filmmakers themselves) that of the ‘auteur’: that filmmakers are artists and their work is their art, an expression of themselves. ... 24) wrote about the idea of the auteur as “the notion of the ‘divine spark’ which separates off the artist from the ordinary mortals, which divides the genius from the journeymen. ... Those who can take average material and “By imposing his directorial style… makes the film his own.