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The best exposition of the Auteur Theory, as it relates to Hollywood film, is in Andrew Sarris' classic book, The American Cinema (1968). This book covers the history of Hollywood feature film making from around 1915-1968. Sarris picks out 55 directors which he thinks are the best directors in American film history. For each one, he gives a complete list of their films, and then specifies which ones he thinks are good - typically around one half or more of the director's output. An essay then follows, in which Sarris sets forth the key features of the director's style and themes. Sarris ... includes similar indexes to the work of 11 outstanding foreign directors that have occasionally made American films.
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No wonder the Auteur Theory has fallen into disrepute: all the auteurs are dead. Such as Stanley Kubrick, who died two years shy of the millennium he made a household word. Why is he an auteur? Partly because his influence is inescapable. Look in the theaters today and you’ll find it in Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 and Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Turn on the TV and you’ll find a scene from Spartacus advertising a soft drink.
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The auteur theory was ... challenged by the influence of New Criticism, a school of literary criticism. The New Critics argued that critics made an "intentional fallacy" when they tried to interpret works of art by speculating about what the author meant, based on the author's personality or life experiences. New Critics argued that that information or speculation about an author's intention was secondary to the words on the page as the basis of the experience of reading literature.
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Just as naturally, Pauline Kael--whose "Circles and Squares," a devastating putdown of Sarris's early auteur theory essays, was emblematic of the flamethrower exchanges between the two--hovers over Citizen Sarris like a spectral presence. In a sharp and useful essay about the two writers, the book's editor Emanuel Levy writes: "Kael's prose had the heat of gossip, a breezy rhythm that pulled in readers. Sarris's style was more formal and elegant; he didn't go out of his way to demonstrate rapport with his young readers. Kael pretended to talk to her readers at their level; Sarris expected them to rise to his."
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Poetry, the auteur theory of moviemaking and the value the French place on a glass of wine would seem to have no connection to product design. But an Australian academic is using these examples along with theories proposed by Aristotle to help Unitec design students better understand the design process.
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