Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cahiers Du Cinéma, Andrew Sarris, Karel Reisz
25 Jan 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Shadow of a doubt usa, 1943, 108m, b/w. Screenwriter: thornton wilder, sally benson, and alma reville, from an original story by. A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it"s an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion. Karel reisz lecture outline: the auteur theory. Pre-1950s film criticism did not examine director as artist. Art = serious european films (political power, plague of the oppressed, war) Critics did not talk about hollywood films as art films, they were viewed as products. Hollywood films were mass produced by the studio system and made collectively within the corporate industrial mode. Critics did not see a single creative form behind the average hollywood film, no artist. Good hollywood films were considered extraordinary, and more often, in terms of being result of a combination of exceptional circumstances. The idea of auteurism can be traced back to: Alexander astruc the birth of a new avant-garde: la cam ra stylo .
