in general could not agree with tony williams more when he says that the

issue of authorship needs lots of careful discussion in what he calls the

"post barthes" era . . . and my own posting was not at all aimed at

authorship [or even at such notions as "the cinema of nicholas ray"--a notion

that seems to me very serviceable] . . . it was aimed ONLY at authors

understood as persons as opposed to authors [or authorship] understood as

something inferred from texts . . .

 

. . . this is hardly a post-structuralist, or post-modern, or post-anything

else notion . . . it goes back at least to lawrence's "trust the tale, not

the teller" and proabably a good deal before, although no earlier example

comes to mind just now . . .

  if you wanna know what nick ray had to say in his movies, watch the movies

. . . and if you wanna know what he had to say in his life read about his

life, but then you're not doing cinema-studies/criticism/textual-analysis or

anything like it anymore

 

mike frank

 

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