CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Classical Hollywood Cinema, David Bordwell, Auteur Theory
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We can study a film from a number of different view. Can all be seen as genre film but also output of filmmaker. Understand films in relation to other films create by the same director. David bordwell: as a critical enterprise, auteur analysis of the 1950s and 1960s consisted of applying art-(cid:272)i(cid:374)e(cid:373)a readi(cid:374)g strategies to the (cid:272)lassi(cid:272)al holl(cid:455)(cid:449)ood (cid:272)i(cid:374)e(cid:373)a. (cid:863) Classical cinema: without direct reference to the making, should not realize the film is made by a particular person. Art cinema: calls attention to the filmmaker themselves highly self-reflexive. Subject matter, sound, work (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374)alities of o(cid:374)e dire(cid:272)tor"s fil(cid:373) Announces its status as an art rather than the simply existed classical film. The art film is made by an individual their involvement and trace. Classical film has also been understood by the auteurism. Largel(cid:455) dri(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) dire(cid:272)tor, (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) star, produ(cid:272)er, ge(cid:374)re (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)it audie(cid:374)(cid:272)e" atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) Today we are in a very director centric culture.