MSTU1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Andrew Sarris, Showrunner, Dan Harmon
Week 10 MSTU Lecture Notes – Auteurs and Showrunners
Auteur Theory
• Single author
• Traslated ito fil 96s
• Creative control over productions
• Redefined film as art
• Have a distinctive style and theme of the director
• Thinking of film as a work of art and being capable of being works of art
• Director able to bring everyone into line
Director as Auteur:
• Get verbafied
• Set apart from mainstream directors
• Turns them into a marketing device
Style: Alex Astruc:
• Camera being used as a pen
• Exploring emerging sense of style
• Able to express ideas – become as means of expression just as all the arts have been before
it
• Express abstract thoughts and translate obsessions
Andrew Sarris: 3 Criteria:
• Auteur – 1962 3 criteria to qualify – Aronofsky films
• Technique – competence and directorial skill
• Personal style – recurring style that acts as signature, the way a film looks and feels
• Interior meaning – tesio etee a diretors persoality ad aterial
Perkins: Creative Control:
• Need creative control of material
• Style and meaning are twin products of synthesis
• Not of total creation of sufficient control
Style and Narrative Content:
• Scorsese 1967 – The Big Shave (about the Vietnam war where the men just have to keep
going even though they keep dying)
• Mother! – biblical thing about climate change
• Aret really the guarator of eaig
Authorial Intention:
• Cultural and historical context
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