ABSTRACT

French screenwriters’ precarity has been highlighted in a number of different ways in recent years, not least by their efforts to organise and publicise professional abuses. This article will consider the situation of writers and how these are often framed in relation to a cinematic culture rooted in what Jonathan Buchsbaum calls ‘a certain idea of film [as] the art form of the twentieth century’, an idea that engages with debates on quality as well as authorship. As will emerge, this is also an idea of cinema that many of the screenwriters in question contribute to and defend, even if its emphasis on the director-auteur has implications for their own position and visibility. The article will then turn to recent efforts on the part of French screenwriters working in different sectors of audio-visual and cinematic production to stand up against precarious employment conditions, inadequate remuneration, and what they have described as a systematic downplaying of their role and their work, which have successfully attracted attention from the media but also from professional bodies, notably the CNC.

摘要

近年来，法国编剧的不稳定状况以多种不同方式凸显出来，尤其是他们组织和宣传职业虐待行为的努力。本文将考虑作家的处境，以及如何将他们与根植于乔纳森·布赫斯鲍姆所说的“电影作为二十世纪艺术形式的某种观念”的电影文化联系起来，这种观念引发了争论质量和作者身份。正如将要出现的那样，这也是许多相关编剧所贡献和捍卫的电影理念，即使它对导演-作者的强调对他们自己的地位和知名度产生了影响。