Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Hager, Steven Christopher URN etd-05052009-182842 Title An Incompatibility between Intentionalism and Multiple Authorship in Film Degree Master of Arts Department Philosophy Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Jessica Berry Committee Chair Melissa Merritt Committee Member Sebastian Rand Committee Member Keywords
- Intentionalism
- Interpretation
- Intention
- Filmic utterance
- Film
- Authorship
- Author
- Single authorship view
- Multiple authorship view
Date of Defense 2009-04-27 Availability unrestricted 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.Files
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