Authorship and Aesthetics in the Cinematography of Gregg Toland

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Coëgnarts, Maarten and Magliano, Joseph P. (2025) "Cognitivism in Film and Media Stduies" in Projections: The Journal for Movies and the Mind, 19:1, pp. 1-16. ISSN 1934-9688 (Print), ISSN 1934-9696 (Online), cites Cowan, P. (2022) Authorship and Aesthetics in the Cinematography of Gregg Toland.

            "These filmmaker-scholars also draw on cognitive approaches to demystify the romanticized “author-director” concept, which they see as rooted in individualist views of creativity. Philip Cowan’s study (2022) of Gregg Toland explores co-authorship in filmmaking, offering new ways to assess cinematographers’ artistic contributions (p.8).

Novack, David W. (2024) "Sonic Meaning-Making in Film: An Artistic Inquiry into the Functions of Film Sound" in Projections: The Journal for Movies and the Mind, 18:3, pp. 41-66. ISSN 1934-9688 (Print), ISSN 1934-9696 (Online), cites Cowan, P. (2022) Authorship and Aesthetics in the Cinematography of Gregg Toland.

            "This latter inter­est stems from the desire of recent cognitive film practitioner-theorists to gain a deeper understanding of the filmmakers’ mind and the experiential heuristics of creative decision-making (e.g., Cowan 2022)" (p. 42).

Coëgnarts, Maarten (2023) "Shaping Films from the Inside Out: Embodied Mental Schemas in Filmmaking and Viewing" in Baltic Screen Media Review 11 (pp. 129-147), Sciendo: Poland, cites Cowan, Philip (2022) Authorship and Aesthetics in the Cinematography of Gregg Toland (pp. 138, 144).