The Auteur Contrast: William Shakespeare And Jane Austen
Auteur
“Auteur n. a film director regarded as having such a significant influence on films that he or she directs as to be able to rank as their author. (author = originator)” (Pearsall & Trumble ed., 1996, p 92)
Authorship
The idea that 'the author ' is the source of meaning and value in artistic texts has been a persistent one. We talk of Shakespeare’s plays or Austen 's novels in ways that suggest that William Shakespeare and Jane Austen are uniquely gifted and independent individuals, solely responsible for everything in their work. This view of art credits the author with power through having genius, and/or special experience, and emphasises the individual and 'special ' over the social and the shared. (Branston, R & Stafford, G, 1996, p 289/290)
The Auteur Contrast
The director in modern Hollywood can function much like a star in offering an insurance value to the …show more content…
At the time the debate centred on the auteur (author of the script and film-maker as one and the same) versus the scenario-led film (scripts commissioned from an author or scriptwriter) a distinction that fed into the original high-art, low-art debate. After 1950 this debate was ‘picked up’ again by the newly launched film review Cahiers du Cinema (1951)…the group developed the notion of the auteur by binding it closely with the concept of mise-en-scene. (Hayward, 1996:12/13)
During the German occupation of France in the Second World War, American films had been proscribed [denounced/exiled]. Suddenly, after the war, hundreds of films heretofore unseen, flooded the French cinema screens. This cinema, directed by the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawkes, John Ford and Samuel Fuller, seemed refreshingly new and led the Cahiers group to a reconsideration of Hollywood 's production. (Hayward,
“Auteur n. a film director regarded as having such a significant influence on films that he or she directs as to be able to rank as their author. (author = originator)” (Pearsall & Trumble ed., 1996, p 92)
Authorship
The idea that 'the author ' is the source of meaning and value in artistic texts has been a persistent one. We talk of Shakespeare’s plays or Austen 's novels in ways that suggest that William Shakespeare and Jane Austen are uniquely gifted and independent individuals, solely responsible for everything in their work. This view of art credits the author with power through having genius, and/or special experience, and emphasises the individual and 'special ' over the social and the shared. (Branston, R & Stafford, G, 1996, p 289/290)
The Auteur Contrast
The director in modern Hollywood can function much like a star in offering an insurance value to the …show more content…
At the time the debate centred on the auteur (author of the script and film-maker as one and the same) versus the scenario-led film (scripts commissioned from an author or scriptwriter) a distinction that fed into the original high-art, low-art debate. After 1950 this debate was ‘picked up’ again by the newly launched film review Cahiers du Cinema (1951)…the group developed the notion of the auteur by binding it closely with the concept of mise-en-scene. (Hayward, 1996:12/13)
During the German occupation of France in the Second World War, American films had been proscribed [denounced/exiled]. Suddenly, after the war, hundreds of films heretofore unseen, flooded the French cinema screens. This cinema, directed by the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawkes, John Ford and Samuel Fuller, seemed refreshingly new and led the Cahiers group to a reconsideration of Hollywood 's production. (Hayward,