Religious Studies 1033A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: All About My Mother, Francisco Franco, Peter Wollen

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 1033A/B
• Professor: Kyle Tabbernor

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Week twelve: almodovar: feminism, queer identities & the church. In his 1962 essay entitled, (cid:862)notes o(cid:374) the auteur theor(cid:455)(cid:863), fil(cid:373) (cid:449)riter a(cid:374)dre(cid:449) arris outli(cid:374)es the three pre(cid:373)ises that allo(cid:449) spe(cid:272)tators to deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)e if a dire(cid:272)tor is a(cid:374) (cid:858)auteur(cid:859): The first premise of the auteur theory is the technical competence of a director as a criterion of value. The second premise of the auteur theory is the distinguishable personality of the director as a criterion of value. Peter wollen, a contemporary film theorist working much later than sarris, believes that the auteur theory actually breaks from the idea of art cinema. He states, (cid:862)the art ci(cid:374)e(cid:373)a is rooted i(cid:374) the idea of creativit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d the fil(cid:373) as the e(cid:454)pressio(cid:374) of a(cid:374) individual vision. What the auteur theory argues is that any film, certainly [even] a hollywood film, is a network of different statements, crossing and contradicting each other, elaborated into a fi(cid:374)al, cohere(cid:374)t visio(cid:374)(cid:863) (wollen 467)