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Define in detail what the “auteur theory” is. Choose a filmmaker (that you have studied in class or chosen for yourself), and examine his or her ouvrage for signs of autherism. Discuss the problems that many critics have found in the auteur theory. The ‘auteur theory’ in the context of film is usually seen as a director who stamps his or her individual style onto a film. The auteur theory has evolved by the French critics at ‘Cahiers Du Cinema’ in the 1950s. Francis Truffant was one of these French critics and later exposed in detail by author Andrew Sarris that then evoked respect for Hollywood Cinema. The auteur signifies a set of stylistic and thematic features in the film itself. It is a set of elements working in combination. The key elements are personal style, interior meaning. Auteurs can be seen today, such as Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarrentino, Stephen Spielberg and Stanley Kubrik. Each director here needs a significant level of control and independence to stamp his or her signature on the film. The director is the unifying force. Over a group of films an auteur must display recurrent characteristics of style and perhaps interior meanings. Alfred Hitchcock is perhaps the most notable example of a director who auterism. In Hitchcock’s films the star is always a handsome man, or a sophisticated beautiful woman who more then often tends to smoke, and drive in date cars.
Approximate Word count = 869
Approximate Pages = 3.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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