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
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KUBRICK CONTRA NIHILISM: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Much critical ink has been spilled over the question of whether the world-view of archetypal auteur Stanley Kubrick is nihilistic or not‚ and appropriately so. To my mind‚ this is one of the most important questions we can ask about genuine artists and their oeuvres. If auteur criticism is to have any validity‚ from a philosophical perspective‚ it must address such issues. True cinematic geniuses (e.g.‚ Bergman‚ Antonioni‚ Wertmuller‚ Hitchcock
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Sovereignty of the San Andres Island The history of the Archipelago and some brief information about the Islands The San Andrés Caribbean Island is a coral island located amid the Colombian archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. Primarily constituted by tourism San Andrés economy used to depend on Fishing and some weak agricultural activities. With the introduction of the Air transport on the island in 1954 the Colombian government decided to invest in the tourism making the archipelago a duty-free
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know only human beings.” André Trocmé was born in St. Quentin‚ 1901‚ in the north of France to Huguenot parents. After seminary in Paris and graduate work at Union Theological Seminary in New York‚ he was ordained into the French Reformed Church and served for eight years among the coal miners and steel workers of Maubeuge and Sin-le-Noble‚ two small towns in the north of France. He preached nonviolence at a time when such views were unpopular in France. In 1934 André Trocmé accepted a call to be
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Jane Davis McDowell 20 March 2010 General Science San Andres Fault Summary The San Andreas Fault is a crack in the Earth’s crust in California‚ which is about 1100 kilometers long. Since 1857‚ 1906 and 1989 many famous earthquakes have occurred along it. It is the boundary between the North American and Pacific lithospheric plates. Geologists have learned that the Earth’s crust is fractured into a series of "plates" that have been moving very slowly over the Earth’s surface for millions of
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Removed for Privacy Film Criticism 02/25/2002 Auteur Theory: David Fincher David Fincher began by directing commercials for clients like Nike‚ Pepsi‚ and Coco-cola‚ and soon moved into making music videos for Madonna‚ Sting‚ The Rolling Stones‚ Michael Jackson‚ Aerosmith‚ George Michael‚ Iggy Pop‚ The Wallflowers‚ Billy Idol‚ Steve Winwood‚ The Motels‚ and most recently‚ A Perfect Circle. However‚ he is really known as an Auteur for his work in blockbuster films. His use of weather‚ especially
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live a happy life if they work hard enough. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) critiques this American dominant ideology of the “ideal” family‚ the “ideal” life and the pursuit of success‚ as well as female body standards. In his article “Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur”‚ theorist Robin Wood establishes twelve values which are present in American ideology and therefore “insistently embodied in and reinforced by the classical Hollywood cinema” (Wood 1997‚ 669). In Little Miss
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Alex Hoffman IB Film Mr. Evers January 10‚ 2012 Paul Thomas Anderson: An Auteur of Film There are two types of directors in the world: those who write their movies and those who don’t. This doesn’t mean that one is a better director than the other‚ but it does however define if a director is truly an auteur of their film. Paul Thomas Anderson dropped out of film school after just 2 days. He went on to spend his savings and college money to produce his first short film Cigarettes & Coffee. It
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SUBJECT: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY TOPIC: Discuss the relationship between Individualism and Equality. COURSE: B.A (H) PHILOSOPHY In his article - Individualism and Equality‚ Andre Beteille examines the relationship between individualism and equality at the level of values. He has focussed upon explaining the works of renowned anthropologist‚ Louis Dumont and famous historian‚ Alexis de Tocqueville. He also emphasises upon their contrasting works on the tumultuous and impassive relationship
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The movie‚ San Andres‚ is an exciting movie about major earthquakes devastating California. While there are some scientific truths in the film‚ there are many more scientific fallacies. All of the fallacies in the film are done out of ignorance‚ as a plot device. In this paper‚ both the truths and fallacies will be addressed. To give the film some credit‚ we will first address what was portrayed accurately. In the opening scene a young woman is driving on a winding hillside road‚ when she gets taken
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