Building a Feminocentric Canon: Cline Sciamma and the Dawn of Post-Auteurism

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As the digital age ruptures all traditional cinema norms, rendering media into content, the logic of legitimacy and authenticity is entering a space of overwhelming uncertainty. In this book, Tom Knoblauch argues that alongside that uncertainty also lies the promise of new conventions and even, perhaps, a new canon.

In envisioning a new system of valuation for authentic expression with an open door to previously marginalized voices, this book posits that Cline Sciamma is a filmmaker whose works offer a bold challenge to the existing canon and a model of authorship that can form the canon of tomorrow. Cinema's future, Knoblauch asserts, will exist in a space that is both post-cinema and post-auteur, disrupting what has often been an exclusionary politics of (male) genius that have dominated the medium since the French New Wave. Through an embrace of the algorithmic age's ruptures, Knoblauch situates Sciamma as key to the conception of a feminocentric canon that need not be viewed as radical, but can instead become the basis for new tradition.

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Tom Knoblauch is a cultural scholar, internationally award-winning filmmaker, broadcaster, and voiceover artist.