Includes bibliographical references.

A certain tendency of the French cinema (1954) / Francois Truffaut -- La politique des auteurs (1957) / Andre Bazin -- Films, directors, and auteurs (1962) / Ian Cameron -- Notes on the auteur theory in 1962 (1962) / Andrew Sarris -- Circles and squares (1963) / Pauline Kael -- The auteur theory (1969) (excerpt) / Peter Wollen -- Direction and authorship (1972) (excerpt) / V.F. Perkins -- Ideas of authorship (1973) / Edward Buscombe -- Ideology, genre, auteur (1977) / Robin Wood -- The death of the author (1968) / Roland Barthes -- The English cine-structuralists (1973) / Charles Eckert -- Alternatives to auteurs (1973) / Graham Petrie -- Women's cinema as counter-cinema (1973) / Claire Johnston -- Refocusing authorship in women's cinema (2003) / Angela Martin -- The men with the movie cameras (1972) / Richard Kosarzski -- Notes on a screenwriter's theory, 1973 (1974) / Richard Corliss -- Who makes the movies? (1976) / Gore Vidal -- Script/performance/text : performance theory and auteur theory (1978) / Peter Lehman -- Studio authorship (2006) (excerpt) / Jerome Christensen -- The producer as auteur (2006) / Matthew Bernstein -- Authorship, design, and execution (1987) / Bruce Kawin -- Hitchcock's imagery and art (1977) / Maurice Yacowar -- John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln (1970) / editors of Cahiers du Cinema -- Towards an analysis of the Sirkian system (1972) / Paul Willeman -- My name is Joseph H. Lewis (1983) / Paul Kerr -- Authorship as a commodity: the art cinema and The cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1984) / Michael Budd -- The place of women in the cinema of Raoul Walsh (1974) / Claire Johnston and Pam Cook -- Female authorship reconsidered (the case of Dorothy Arzner) (1990) / Judith Mayne -- Man's favorite sport?--the action films of Kathryn Bigelow (2004) / Barry Keith Grant -- Todd Haynes and queer authorship (2006) / Michael DeAngelis -- Twoness in the style of Oscar Micheaux (1993) / J. Ronald Green -- Spike's joint (1998) (excerpt) / S. Craig Watkins.