References: Bacon‚ R. and Kalsher‚ M‚ (2008). Psychology: From Science to Practice 2nd Boston‚ MA: Allyn and Bacon Franoi‚ S. (2010). Social Psychology 5th Ed.
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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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reflects the director’s personal and creative vision‚ as if the director was the original creator or author. François Truffaut‚ the famous French film director and critic‚ maintains that a good director (including the bad ones)‚ exhibits such a distinctive style if not promotes a consistent theme that his or her influence is unmistakable in the body of his or her work. Like Truffaut‚ Andrew Sarris believed through analyzing film‚ an ‘auteurist” becomes appreciative of directors whose works detail a
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Review of Monique and the Mango Rains Monique and the Mango Rains is a memoir about a friendship that develops between Kris Holloway‚ and a midwife in the village of Nampossela‚ Mali. Kris Holloway served in the Peace Corps and was assigned for 2 years to be stationed in Mali. Kris was trained to “give health demonstrations‚ repair wells‚ build fuel-conserving stoves‚ plant trees‚ and protect the shoots from the ever hungry mouths of goats” (11). Kris meets and assists Monique Dembele in her struggle
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The pictures were still of high quality with sufficient plot‚ acting and editing‚ but there wasn’t an artistic push from most directors. The first critique to note this was Francaise Truffaut‚ he coined this qualite francaise and spoke of how a director should be the chief artist not merely a manager‚ the name for such a driving director an auteur. Although there were seemingly few creative and differing pieces did come from this time
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contributors in this work of art and how the director as an auteur has affected the development and growth of the industry in present day contemporary Nigeria. Historical Survey The idea of the director as auteur was first suggested by Francoise Truffaut who used the term polemically to denigrate the then dominant mode of filmmaking that emphasized the adaptation of great works of literature to the screen. This he did in his article‚ “Une Certaine Tendence du Cinema Francaise‚” (A Certain Tendency
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“The effective war film is often the one in which the action begins after the war‚ when there is nothing but ruins and desolation everywhere…” Francois Truffaut Francois Truffaut continued on to say that Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog‚ made in 1955‚ was the “greatest film ever made”. The 30-minute film based on the horrors of the Holocaust and Nazi concentration camps after World War II combines Resnais’ own cinematography with original images and footage of the captives in their unfathomable
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’A bout de souffle’‚ Jean-Luc Godard’s eerste ’feature’ film (1960)‚ heeft een vrij simpele verhaallijn‚ dat geschreven is door vroegere collega en vriend Francois Truffaut: Een man steelt een auto in Marseilles en rijdt naar Parijs. Tijdens deze rit wordt de hoofdpersoon‚ Michel Poiccard‚ aangehouden door de politie wegens het overschrijden van de maximum snelheid‚ waarna hij een agent neerschiet en rennend verder gaat naar de lichtstad. In Parijs moet hij geld ophalen bij een vriend van hem en
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Why did Punk Rock begin in the 1970s? The nineteen seventies was an era of experimental and reactionary creation (Larkin‚ 1997‚ p339). The mid seventies marked the coming of a new genre of music; Punk Rock. Disco was dead and a fresh form of rebellion was born with Punk Rock exploding onto the U.S and English music scenes with attitudes and aesthetics reminiscent of American 1950s Rock and Roll (Larkin‚ 1997‚ p339). “The utopian idealism of the sixties had been drained off‚ leaving a bitter residue
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Vertigo – Hitchcock Defying Genre “…alternatively‚ a film can revise or reject the conventions associated with its genre” - Bordwell Based on the French novel D’Entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac‚ Vertigo is arguably one of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces and the “strangest‚ yet most hauntingly beautiful film he had ever made” (Adair‚ 2002). At the time‚ its far-fetched plot drew a mixed response from critics – Time magazine called the movie a “Hitchcock and bull story” – but
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