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http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-greatest-actors-turned-directors. Characters. Themes. Representation of the past. Style. Narrative. Narrative. Hollywood. Art Cinema/ European . Loose cause and effect Open/ambiguous endings Ambiguous characters, often lacking defined desires/goals - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Characters
Style
Themes
Narrative
Representation of the past
Narrative
• Strong cause-and-effect• High degree of narrative closure• Psychologically rounded, goal-
driven characters• Character subordinate to plot• Fictional world governed by
spatial and temporal verisimilitude
• Familiar rules, codes, conventions• Heterosexual romance normally
present as main plot or subplot
Art Cinema/ European • Loose cause and effect• Open/ambiguous endings• Ambiguous characters, often
lacking defined desires/goals • Plot subordinate to character• Psychological or social realism• Experimentation (less
formulaic)
Hollywood
Psycho (dir. Hitchcock, 1960)
Schindler’s List (dir. Spielberg, 1993)
Raging Bull (dir. Scorsese, 1980)
Auteur
http://movies.amctv.com/movie-guide/the-50-greatest-directors-of-all-time/
Bioscope magazine: ‘special directors’
Germany: ‘Autoren film’
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
‘camera stylo’
Alexandre Astruc: 1948
Refer to a director’s discernable style through mise-en-scene or to filmmaking practices where the director’s signature was in evidence
Value personal expression and creativity
A director’s auteurist status emerges from the consistency of themes, images and styles over the whole body of his or her work;
Cahiers critics ideas…Wanted to elevate status of director by labeling them an auteur
Une Certaine Tendance du Cinema Francais (Francois Truffaut, 1954)
‘La Politique des auteurs’
The director’s personal expression is key in distinguishing whether they should be afforded the title of auteur
Auteur?
Trunk Shot
Non-linear narratives
Use of music
Use of dialogue
Strong female leads
Violence!
‘I’m shutting your butt down!’
metteur en scene
Merely adapt material given to them rather than making it their own…they lack extra depth involved (Bazin)