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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The Auteur Theory"”.
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Andrew Sarris and the Politique des Auteurs (1962-1974): An Assessment and an Analysis
<p>The politique des auteurs was, from the period 1968 through 1973, the dominant methodology in cinematic criticism. It was tentatively formulated by Francois Truffaut in 1954 and greatly expanded upon by Andrew Sarris in 1962. Briefly, the “auteur theory” (as it is known in English speaking …
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Dual Auteurs?: The Case Study of Gordon Hessler and Christopher Wicking
This thesis examines the four American International Pictures horror movies, The Oblong Box (1969), Scream and Scream Again (1970), Cry of the Banshee (1970) and Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971), directed by Gordon Hessler and written by Christopher Wicking between 1969 and 1971, in an effort to …
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The Screenplay Business: Managing creativity in script development in the contemporary British independent film industry
… for a film, and its genesis and development is therefore important to our understanding of how films are created. Film business studies has traditionally avoided close study of the screenplay development process, perhaps as a result of the film studies emphasis on analysing the text of the …
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“In the same figure, like the king that’s dead”: The Phantasmic Authorship of The Other Side of the Wind
<p>The release of <em>The Other Side of the Wind</em> calls into question some of the basic tenets of film theory and film academia in that it is a film that is essentially impossible to credit to a single <em>auteur </em>because of the death of its director decades before the film’s release<em>. …
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The Dream Machine: Moving beyond the dichotomy between genre and auteur cinema
At a time when the moving image is more omnipresent than ever in modern society, the cinema is suffering an identity crisis, with some commentators questioning whether the medium is already dead. Hollywood cinema has shifted predominantly towards superhero and fantasy franchises complemented by …