“In the same figure, like the king that’s dead”: The Phantasmic Authorship of The Other Side of the Wind

<p>The release of <em>The Other Side of the Wind</em> calls into question some of the basic tenets of film theory and film academia in that it is a film that is essentially impossible to credit to a single <em>auteur </em>because of the death of its director decades before the film’s release<em>. </em>This thesis seeks to reconcile the fundamentals of the auteur theory, by returning to its origin in the pages of <em>Cahiers du cinema </em>and in the writing of Andrew Sarris, with this curious film object, credited by its distributor as a film by Orson Welles. Because an auteurist question is only one that can be resolved by an auteurist reading, this thesis travels the length of Welles’s filmography to attempt to create a composite image of what a film by Orson Welles is, and to compare this image to the released version of <em>The Other Side of the Wind</em>.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Master

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Liberal Studies

Grantor

The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Sawyer, Hunter M

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Leah Anderst

• Film and Media Studies
• Orson Welles
• The Other Side of the Wind
• The Auteur Theory

Repository record dc:identifier

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3584

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-4614