Robin Wood's Article 'Ideology, Genre, Auteur'
Name: Faith Chin Lin
T number: T00184784
Title of Modules: Film and Narrative Studies
Title of Program: TV, Radio, New Media Broadcasting
Year: Year 1
Total Word Count: 518 Ideology, Genre, Auteur
Robin Wood’s article ‘Ideology, Genre, Auteur’ suggests that instead of looking at movies in only one perspective, one should combine different approaches to assessing the film as a whole. By collectively looking at the ideologies, the methods, and the director, one will get a more accurate sense of the movie. He states that his concern is “to suggest something of the complex interaction of ideology, genre, and personal authorship that determines the richness, the density of meaning, of the great Hollywood masterpieces” . (82)
Wood is concerned with the ways in which ideologies are communicated in films. Ideologies are a set of beliefs that serve to …show more content…
This theory suggests that a director can use the commercial appliance of film-making, in the same way, which an author uses a pen, or an author uses paint and a paintbrush. It is a medium for the personal artistic expression of the director. It is a place where the director find out who they are and what kind of film they want to make. (107)
Alfred Hitchcock plays this idea up in most of his movies where he makes sure that he appears on the screen in a brief cameo spot. This became a venture that spectator would engage in, waiting to find out when he would appear. A movie theoretician, André Bazin, explained that: auteur theory was a way of choosing individual aspect in artistic development as a standard of reference, and then presuming that it will continue and even advance from one movie to the next.
T number: T00184784
Title of Modules: Film and Narrative Studies
Title of Program: TV, Radio, New Media Broadcasting
Year: Year 1
Total Word Count: 518 Ideology, Genre, Auteur
Robin Wood’s article ‘Ideology, Genre, Auteur’ suggests that instead of looking at movies in only one perspective, one should combine different approaches to assessing the film as a whole. By collectively looking at the ideologies, the methods, and the director, one will get a more accurate sense of the movie. He states that his concern is “to suggest something of the complex interaction of ideology, genre, and personal authorship that determines the richness, the density of meaning, of the great Hollywood masterpieces” . (82)
Wood is concerned with the ways in which ideologies are communicated in films. Ideologies are a set of beliefs that serve to …show more content…
This theory suggests that a director can use the commercial appliance of film-making, in the same way, which an author uses a pen, or an author uses paint and a paintbrush. It is a medium for the personal artistic expression of the director. It is a place where the director find out who they are and what kind of film they want to make. (107)
Alfred Hitchcock plays this idea up in most of his movies where he makes sure that he appears on the screen in a brief cameo spot. This became a venture that spectator would engage in, waiting to find out when he would appear. A movie theoretician, André Bazin, explained that: auteur theory was a way of choosing individual aspect in artistic development as a standard of reference, and then presuming that it will continue and even advance from one movie to the next.