Andre Bazin

Authorship in film

by Jon on July 25, 2011

    More about the concept of the auteur, written for a film class in 2006. How useful to an understanding of film is authorship?   Many film critics and theorists believed the concept of authorship is important to the understanding of film.  The idea of an author, or an ‘auteur’, arose from the ‘auteur [...]

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The Auteur Theory

by Jon on July 25, 2011

Notes on the auteur theory, 2004   Auteur is French for author. The auteur theory is a way of reading and appraising films through the imprint of an auteur, usually meant to be the director.   André Bazin (1918-1958), the editor of France’s foremost film magazine, Cahiers du Cinéma, proclaimed Howard Hawks one of the [...]

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