Authorship

I think that Roland Barthes was correct when in “Death of an Author” when he said “Once the Author is removed, the claim to decipher a text becomes quite futile. To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.” This is very important because it doesn’t matter what the author gets out of the text. It only matters what the readers get from the text. If something was meant by the author to appear in a certain way but to most people do not recognized it in that sense then the author’s original thoughts/intentions are not relevant.

I think that this idea is a constant struggle with many writers. I know for example many movie directors have a lot of trouble with this. Sundance Film Festival is an event that many directors show there films but most of them never become popular because they are not the typical movie. They usually are very long and take a particular type of person to appreciate. These videos are usually the way the author wants viewers to see the movie. It is rare that a Sundance film to become popular in mainstream society.