The ideological symbiosis of ‘auteur’ and ‘craftsperson’
Mathieu, Chris(Frederiksberg, 2011)
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Resume:
This chapter explores some of the central cultural tenets of career and film
making among elite members of the Danish film industry, or what is less than
elegantly and somewhat grammatically incorrectly referred to as ‘the cultural
of production and career’ in the title of this chapter. The theoretical reasons
for this formulation is to train focus on the ideational dimensions of culture in
the Danish film industry, especially as refracted through reflections on work
and career by film workers. In this sense the approach, though less inclusive
and ambitious, resembles Caldwell’s interest in ‘indigenous interpretive
frameworks in Production Culture.i The chapter also argues that production
and career decisions and actions are inextricable intertwined. Sometimes the
two are consciously and manifestly related to each other, in terms of
deliberating the implications that working on a given film, with given
persons, in a given manner, etc. will have on one’s further work possibilities;
or the reverse, how career considerations impact how films get made in terms
of who works on them and what resources, skills, tastes, and perspectives are
brought into and realized in a production. Sometimes the interrelation of
these considerations remains latent. This chapter explores how certain
cultural underpinnings support these mutually intertwined considerations.