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http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-greatest-actors-turned-directors. Characters. Themes. Representation of the past. Style. Narrative. Narrative. Hollywood. Art Cinema/ European . Loose cause and effect Open/ambiguous endings Ambiguous characters, often lacking defined desires/goals

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  1. http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-greatest-actors-turned-directorshttp://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-greatest-actors-turned-directors

  2. Characters Themes Representation of the past Style Narrative

  3. Narrative Hollywood Art Cinema/ European Loose cause and effect Open/ambiguous endings Ambiguous characters, often lacking defined desires/goals Plot subordinate to character Psychological or social realism Experimentation (less formulaic) • Strong cause-and-effect • High degree of narrative closure • Psychologically rounded, goal-driven characters • Character subordinate to plot • Fictional world governed by spatial and temporal verisimilitude • Familiar rules, codes, conventions • Heterosexual romance normally present as main plot or subplot

  4. Psycho (dir. Hitchcock, 1960)

  5. Schindler’s List (dir. Spielberg, 1993)

  6. Raging Bull (dir. Scorsese, 1980)

  7. Auteur

  8. http://movies.amctv.com/movie-guide/the-50-greatest-directors-of-all-time/http://movies.amctv.com/movie-guide/the-50-greatest-directors-of-all-time/

  9. Bioscope magazine: ‘special directors’ Germany: ‘Autoren film’

  10. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#casthttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

  11. ‘camera stylo’ AlexandreAstruc: 1948

  12. Cahiers critics ideas… Wanted to elevate status of director by labeling them an auteur Refer to a director’s discernable style through mise-en-scene or to filmmaking practices where the director’s signature was in evidence Value personal expression and creativity A director’s auteurist status emerges from the consistency of themes, images and styles over the whole body of his or her work;

  13. UneCertaineTendance du Cinema Francais(Francois Truffaut, 1954)

  14. ‘La Politique des auteurs’ • The director’s personal expression is key in distinguishing whether they should be afforded the title of auteur

  15. Auteur?

  16. Trunk Shot

  17. Non-linear narratives

  18. Use of music

  19. Use of dialogue

  20. Strong female leads

  21. Violence!

  22. ‘I’m shutting your butt down!’

  23. metteur en scene Merely adapt material given to them rather than making it their own…they lack extra depth involved (Bazin)

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