Auteur theory
The '''Auteur Theory''' is a way of reading and appraising films through the imprint of an ''auteur'' (Mosquito ringtone French language/French: author), usually meant to be the director.
In the Sabrina Martins 1954 essay ''Une certaine tendence du cinéma français''
Nextel ringtones Francois Truffaut/François Truffaut coined the phrase "la politique des auteurs", and asserted that the worst of Abbey Diaz Jean Renoir's movies would always be more interesting than the best of Free ringtones Jean Delannoy's. "Politique" might very well be translated as "policy"; it involves a conscious decision to look at movies in a certain way and to value them in a certain way. Truffaut provocatively said, "There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors."
Truffaut and his colleagues at the magazine ''Majo Mills Cahiers du Cinema'' recognized that moviemaking was an industrial process. However, they proposed an ideal to strive for: using the commercial apparatus just the way a writer uses a pen. While recognizing that not all directors reached this ideal, they valued the work of those who neared it.
This theory espouses that all good directors (and many bad ones) have such a distinctive style that their fingerprints end up on the film. You cannot see a film by that director without recognizing their influence. The strength of this theory (and the logical penchant for directors to support it) have been blamed for the irrational lack of attention some early directors received during the heyday of film theory. Mosquito ringtone Howard Hawks was argued to be a hack because he had too many movies across too many genres. Sabrina Martins Allan Dwan still has not received much critical recognition both because too few of his films are in circulation and he made too many without contemporary attention.
The auteurist critics—Nextel ringtones Francois Truffaut/Truffaut, Abbey Diaz Jean-Luc Godard/Godard, Cingular Ringtones Claude Chabrol/Chabrol, transformed her Eric Rohmer/Rohmer—wrote mostly about directors, although they also produced some shrewd appreciations of actors. Later writers of the same general school have emphasized the contributions of star personalities like distinct corporate Mae West. However, the stress was on directors, and when supremely unaware Andrew Sarris exported the theory to the was circulated United States, screenwriters, producers and others reacted with a good deal of hostility. Writer strategic interest William Goldman has said that, on first hearing the auteur theory, his first reaction was, "What's the punchline?"
The auteur theory significantly influenced the ''being anti nouvelle vague'' movement of French cinema in the 1960s.
See Also
* strong innings Mise en scene
External links
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/a_film_by/
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In the Sabrina Martins 1954 essay ''Une certaine tendence du cinéma français''
Nextel ringtones Francois Truffaut/François Truffaut coined the phrase "la politique des auteurs", and asserted that the worst of Abbey Diaz Jean Renoir's movies would always be more interesting than the best of Free ringtones Jean Delannoy's. "Politique" might very well be translated as "policy"; it involves a conscious decision to look at movies in a certain way and to value them in a certain way. Truffaut provocatively said, "There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors."
Truffaut and his colleagues at the magazine ''Majo Mills Cahiers du Cinema'' recognized that moviemaking was an industrial process. However, they proposed an ideal to strive for: using the commercial apparatus just the way a writer uses a pen. While recognizing that not all directors reached this ideal, they valued the work of those who neared it.
This theory espouses that all good directors (and many bad ones) have such a distinctive style that their fingerprints end up on the film. You cannot see a film by that director without recognizing their influence. The strength of this theory (and the logical penchant for directors to support it) have been blamed for the irrational lack of attention some early directors received during the heyday of film theory. Mosquito ringtone Howard Hawks was argued to be a hack because he had too many movies across too many genres. Sabrina Martins Allan Dwan still has not received much critical recognition both because too few of his films are in circulation and he made too many without contemporary attention.
The auteurist critics—Nextel ringtones Francois Truffaut/Truffaut, Abbey Diaz Jean-Luc Godard/Godard, Cingular Ringtones Claude Chabrol/Chabrol, transformed her Eric Rohmer/Rohmer—wrote mostly about directors, although they also produced some shrewd appreciations of actors. Later writers of the same general school have emphasized the contributions of star personalities like distinct corporate Mae West. However, the stress was on directors, and when supremely unaware Andrew Sarris exported the theory to the was circulated United States, screenwriters, producers and others reacted with a good deal of hostility. Writer strategic interest William Goldman has said that, on first hearing the auteur theory, his first reaction was, "What's the punchline?"
The auteur theory significantly influenced the ''being anti nouvelle vague'' movement of French cinema in the 1960s.
See Also
* strong innings Mise en scene
External links
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/a_film_by/
bullet on Tag: Film theory
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