OUGD401 - Lecture Notes: The Auteur
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Stanley Kubrick
- Tim Burton
- French new wwave
- Auteur - french for the author
- French film critics celebrated the idea of the director as an artist
- History of film as the history of auteurs - seen like artists - original work - creative control - personal film language
- Notes of the 'Auteur' theory by Saris (1962) - technical innovation - directors personal style - deeper interior meaning
- Hitchcock
- Long career beginning in the early years of film
- work in Europe and America
- Master of the suspense & audiences reception of the film
- Influential in later genres like the american slasher
- Italia Gialo
- Expressionistic lighting
- Story telling visually in silent era
- Use of subjective camera
- Dolly zoom
- Clever use of montage & cutting to create tension in spite of the production code
- 1920's - Hitchcock joined the film industry - started as Artist, drawing sets etc - sent to Germany - heart of expressionism film
- Subjective shot - putting the camera like it is seeing through the characters eyes
- 'What is Drama but life with the dull bits cut out'
- Hitchcock distinguishable personality - expressionism - cameo apperances in his films - narative is often visual rather than words - continuous use of certain actors - suspense
- Expressionism - not concerned with realism & naturalism
- Colour is mad in an expressionstic & symbolic way
- Selzwick introduces him to psycho analysis - they made 'Rebecca', 'Spellbound' & 'Notorious'
- Collaborated with Dali
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