4. In England, the film magazine most influenced by Cahiers was
Movie which was first published in 1962. In the USA, Andrew
Sarris in his seminal essay Notes on the Auteur Theory, published
in Film Culture , echoing the Cahiers critics, defined as an auteur
the director who pours his personality into his film through his
distinctive visual techniques. However, there was an important
novelty
5. Starting in the 1960s, some film critics began
criticising auteur theory's focus on the
authorial role of the director. Pauline Kael and
Sarris feuded in the pages of The New Yorker
and various film magazines. One reason for the
backlash is the collaborative aspect of shooting
a film, and in the theory's privileging of the
role of the director
6. A movement in French cinema in the 1960s, led by
directors such as Jean Luc Godard and François Truffaut,
that abandoned traditional narrative techniques in
favour of greater use of symbolism and abstraction and
dealt with themes of social alienation, psychopathology.
Also called nouvelle vague.
7. A director that films a auteur theory will use the three main corresponding
roles which are techniques- outer, personal style- middle and interior
meaning- inner.
Technician â Techniques
Stylist â personal style
Auteur â interior meaning
8. French filmmaker and critic Francois Truffaut has a major acting
role in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It's
an appropriate tribute by Spielberg to Truffaut, for the cinema in
which Spielberg was to become the leading world figure was very
much based on the notions of auteurism which Truffaut had been
central to introducing to criticism.
9. Over his lengthy career, Alfred Hitchcock became known for his
distinctive style as a film-maker. Apart from the various themes
he frequently addressed in his films such as
violence, murder, psychology and sexual allure, and the many
symbolic touches that came to be known as "Hitchcockian", he
was also very much concerned with technique - his manipulation
of the elements of cinematography...
* shot size
* framing
* composition
* camera angle
* camera movement
* focus