Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
THE AUTEUR THEORY, • Politique des Auteurs - Coggle Diagram
THE AUTEUR THEORY
-
Intentions
Anti-screen-writers article, against the traditional and commercial french writers for film
French cinema was suffering from a "tradition of quality"
• making films for film festivals rather than exercising artistic integrity
• underestimating the capacity of film by continuing traditions
-
Psychological realism destroys realism and are writer's films barricaded by formula and words instead of letting us see the world for ourselves with our own eyes
-
Directors should be responsible for the scenarios and dialogues that they illustrate, invent the stories they direct
Bazin: Auteur theory had never been formally written down, only evolving as a body of criticism, a notion accepted in individual arts
Auteur + Subject = Work but proponents believe that the banality of a bad subject leaves more room for the personal contribution of the auteur
While artists and authors are measured in terms of their works, this is not important in film criticism.
The auteur's talent progresses from one work to the next: personal factor in artistic creation is permanent. one-on-one between the artist and the work. but in film, it is hard to discover who the auteur of any film really is
-
-
-