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Film History Week 9 3/21/12 Film Noir Auteur Theory Stanley Kubrick

Film History Week 9 3/21/12 Film Noir Auteur Theory Stanley Kubrick. The Blacklist. Film History. Cinemascope, 3-D, Cinerama. Film History. Film History. Cinemascope, 3-D, Cinerama. Cinemascope, 3-D, Cinerama. Film History. B-Movies. Film History. The Coming of Television.

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Film History Week 9 3/21/12 Film Noir Auteur Theory Stanley Kubrick

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  1. Film History Week 9 • 3/21/12 • Film Noir • Auteur Theory • Stanley Kubrick

  2. The Blacklist Film History

  3. Cinemascope, 3-D, Cinerama Film History

  4. Film History Cinemascope, 3-D, Cinerama

  5. Cinemascope, 3-D, Cinerama Film History

  6. B-Movies Film History

  7. The Coming of Television Film History

  8. Film History The Parallel Development of Film & Television (First 50 Years)

  9. Film History Film Noir on Film Noir

  10. Film History Film Noir Click on the image to the right to see a PDF.

  11. Film History Film Noir Click on the image to the right to see a PDF.

  12. Film History Film Noir • “Genre” Signatures • Urban Setting • Dark, Usually Rain-Soaked Streets • Customarily Concerned with Crime and Criminals • A Pervasive Cynicism • Seedy Sexuality • A “femme fatale” of Central Importance. • “[A] range of plots—the central figure may be a private eye (The Big Sleep), a plainclothes policeman (The Big Heat), an aging boxer (The Set-Up), a hapless grifter (Night and the City), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime (Gun Crazy), or simply a victim of circumstance (D.O.A.)” [Wikipedia]. 

  13. The Auteur Theory http://davidlavery.net/Courses/3870/Extras/Auteur_Theory.htm Film History

  14. Film History

  15. François Truffaut, "UneCertaineTendance du CinémaFrançais" ("A Certain Tendency in French Cinema"), Cahiers du Cinéma (1954) Film History

  16. Andrew Sarris (US): Auteurism’s American champion Film History

  17. Drawing on the original insights of the French, the American critic Andrew Sarris translated the auteur theory into an American idiom. • For a time, under the influence of Sarris’ goal of converting "film history into directorial autobiography," American intellectuals interested in the movies began to think and talk and understand the movies through the specially-ground lenses provided by the auteur theory. • "Over a group of films," Sarris insisted in what amounts to his foundational principle, "a director must exhibit certain recurrent characteristics of style, which serve as his signature. The way a film looks and moves should have some relationship to the way a director thinks and feels" (Sarris 586). Film History

  18. Truffaut formulated the original auteur theory in opposition to the monopolization of film art by writers. • Sarris’ critical venture was likewise undertaken "against the wind." He sought to undermine the too-great hold of sociological and political critics. He wanted to talk about the art in the movies he loved, not their social significance. Film History

  19. “In its more extreme incarnations auteurism can be seen as an anthropomorphic form of ‘love’ for the cinema. The same love that had formerly been lavished on stars, or that formalists lavished on artistic devices, the auteurists now lavished on the men—and they largely were men—who incarnated the auteurists’ idea of cinema. Film was resurrected as secular religion; the ‘aura’ was back in force thanks to the cult of the auteur.” Robert Stam (88) Film History

  20. The auteur theory’s appeal, the critic Peter Wollen has noted, was obvious: it "implie[d] an operation of decipherment . . . reveal[ing] authors where none had been seen before" (77). Film directors, it was argued, and soon thereafter generally assumed, could put their stamp on a wide variety of movies, even in several genres. Their attention was not focused solely on American directors, of course; they also singled out for praise French auteurs like Abel Gance, Jean Vigo, and Jean Renoir. Film History

  21. The auteur theory was ready to accept, of course, that "Just as not every conductor is a Leonard Bernstein, so not every director is an Alfred Hitchcock" [Dick 147]). • Not all directors became maestros—those individuals Sarris categorized as "Pantheon Directors"--but many shed their anonymity, their earlier work now retrospectfully interesting, their new films anticipated. • The works of a wide variety of directors were catalogued, in some cases exhaustively. And it was not only the movies of these directors that came in for greater scrutiny. The writings of auteurs and available interviews with them concerning their film aesthetics and methods were also put under the microscope. Film History

  22. Film History Week 9 Stanley Kubrick (American, 1928-1999) "[Like the monolith in 2001, Stanley Kubrick] was a force of supernatural intelligence, appearing at great intervals amid high-pitched shrieks, who gives the world a violent kick up the next rung of the evolutionary ladder."--David Denby

  23. Film History Killer’s Kiss (1955) Stanley Kubrick

  24. Film History The Killing (1956) Stanley Kubrick

  25. Film History Paths of Glory (1957) Stanley Kubrick

  26. Film History Spartacus (1960) It's like the end of Spartacus. I've seen that movie half a dozen times, and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. That's what makes that movie a classic whodunit.--The clueless Michael Scott on The Office (Season 6) Stanley Kubrick

  27. Film History Lolita (1962) Stanley Kubrick

  28. Film History Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Stanley Kubrick on the Film History Blog Stanley Kubrick

  29. Film History 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick on Film History Blog My Mentor, W. R. Robinson, on 2001: “2001 and the Literary Sensibility” ”The Birth of Imaginative Man in Part III of 2001: A Space Odyssey” Stanley Kubrick

  30. Film History A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick on the Film History Blog Stanley Kubrick

  31. Film History Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick

  32. Film History The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick

  33. Film History Full Metal Jacket (1987) Stanley Kubrick

  34. Film History Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Stanley Kubrick

  35. Film History AI (Steven Spielberg, 2001) Stanley Kubrick?

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