Auteurism

Holly Hosler-White

What is Auteurism?

• ‘A director, who’s creative influence is so great on a film they’re considered as its author’

• French- Old French for ‘Author’(TheFreeDictionary)

Where does the theory come from?

• France, the late 1940s• Andrew Sarris Dubbed it as the ‘Auteur

Theory’• It was an outgrowth of André Bazin and

Alexandrè Astrucs theories.(Encyclopedia Britannica)

The Theory

• Overall, the Auteur Theory is the idea that the Director can be seen as the ‘author’ of a film if their input influences greatly on the way the story is told. For example, if ‘fundamental visual elements such as, camera placement, Blocking, lighting and scene length, rather than plotline convey the message of the film’

(Encyclopedia Britannica)