Cinema Journal (2007) - La Camera-Crayola: Authorship Comes of Age in the Cinema of Wes Anderson

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• article: La Camera-Crayola: Authorship Comes of Age in the Cinema of Wes Anderson
• author(s): Devin Orgeron
• journal: Cinema Journal (01/Dec/2007)
• issue: volume 46, issue 2, pages 40-65
• DOI: 10.1353/cj.2007.0016
• journal ISSN: 0009-7101
• publisher: University of Texas Press
• keywords: Adrian Martin, Alfred Hitchcock, Andrew Sarris, André Bazin, Anthologies, Auteur theory, Cahiers du Cinéma, Community, Criticism and interpretation, Cultural identity, Dramatic arts, Essays, Film, Filmmakers, François Truffaut, Helen Scott, Identity, James Naremore, Jonathan Romney, London, England, Louis Alexandre Raimon, Margaret Herrick Library, Beverly Hills, California, Martin Scorsese, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, New York City, New York, Nonfiction, Pauline Kael, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Wollen, Richard Neupert, Robert Stam, St. Moritz, Switzerland, Toby Miller, Videodisk, Virginia Wright Wexman, Wes Anderson, William Friedkin, Works, Éric Rohmer

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Abstract

This essay analyzes the fictional authors who populate Wes Anderson's films and his use of DVD technology to promote his own highly self-aware authorial image. Anderson's authorial logic is organized around the concepts of youth and dependence, positioning itself against the still quite powerful myth of the independent and solitary genius.