Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mise-En-Scène, Auteur Theory, Cinema Of The United States
15 Apr 2016
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Film week 15 film art / film auteurs. Buscombe, ideas of authorship (journal article kapsis, alfred hitchcock: auteur or hack? (journal article. In individual production, the author must be the solitary filmmaker. In authorship there is a hierarchy in which a few main players make the key decisions. During the 1950s, young french critics applied the word auteur (author to. Hollywood directors who they felt had created a distinctive approach to filmmaking while working within the hollywood studio system. Today, well established directors can control large-scale production to a remarkable degree: until 2011, steven spielberg resisted using digital editing. For the most part, it"s the directors who shape the films unique form and style, and these two components are central to cinema as an art. Distribution companies form the core of economic power in the commercial film industry. The big six in hollywood still remain the worlds major distributors: warner bros, paramount, walt disney, vista, universal, sony/columbia, twentieth century fox.
