Essays about: "Auteur theory"

Found 4 essays containing the words Auteur theory.

  1. 1. The Periscope Above the Surface: A Study of Auteur Themes in John Ford Films Featuring Submarines

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Oskar Johansson; [2020]
    Keywords : John Ford; auteur theory; textual analysis; submarine films; patriotism; sacrifice; redemption; Cultural Sciences; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This thesis conducts an auteur analysis of John Ford films containing submarines with the method of textual analysis. The films that are being analyzed are The Blue Eagle (1926), Men Without Women (1930), Seas Beneath (1931), Submarine Patrol (1938) and The Growler Story (1958). READ MORE

  3. 2. An Alternative Auteurist Approach to Sidney Lumet's Films : In Search of a Transgressive Cinema

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Ali Aydin; [2015]
    Keywords : auteur theory; auteurism; Sidney Lumet; Murder on the Orient Express; Network; Equus; Georges Bataille; Evil; transgression; hypermorality; puerility; transgressive cinema;

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  4. 3. Mise-En-Page - An Introduction To Screenplay Style & Form

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Ammar Al Subahi; [2012]
    Keywords : Screenplay; Screenwriting; Manus; Scriptwriting; Manusförfattande; Authorship; Auteur theory; Auteur-teori; Blueprint Metaphor; Pasolini; Steven Price; Steven Maras; Mise-en-page; mise-en-scene; Proto-Camera; Reading as Image Building; The Final Broadcast; Filmvetenskap; Film Studies; Filmteori; Film Theory; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to establish the screenplay as a valid, and relevant, object for study in the field of film studies in order to stimulate further research within the field and for a more prevalent inclusion of screenplays in the general discourse of film studies. I argue that accounts of the screenplay as either literature or blueprints, which stand in ideological opposition to each other, are lackluster as they overemphasize the virtues of their own side of the spectrum while at the same time undervaluing the other side; neither accounting for their own vices. READ MORE

  5. 4. An Auteur Study of Kira Muratova Focusing on the Films Two in One and Melody for a Street Organ

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Helena Tomasson; [2012]
    Keywords : Soviet cinema; post-modern cinema; semiotics; meaning; text; heteroglossia; film study; film analysis; Kira Muratova; auteur study; dialogism; violence; grotesque in film; Ukrainian cinema; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis is dedicated to the cinema art of Kira Muratova with the focus on the theme of grotesque. Kira Muratova shot films of different genres; mixing styles, creating a new reality of cinema, mixing audio-visualization of people with animals, classical literature with slang, including photography and pornography, installation, performance, opera and ballet. READ MORE