The Cinema of Defection: Auteur Theory and Institutional Life

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In 1951, André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Joseph-Marie Lo Duca launched French influential film magazine "CahiersduCinéma" (movie notes). CahiersduCinéma was originally a declaration of "la politique des Auteurs" (author philosophy / methodology (in this case, movie "writer") and developed into a supervisory theory now known. In the origin of the magazine, these theories led to the reevaluation of Hollywood films and directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Robert Aldridge, Nicholas Lei and Fritz Lang. The authors of Cahiers du Cinema also support director Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, Kenji Mizoguchi, MaxOphüls, Jean Cocteau's works.

American film researcher Andrew Sarris was inspired by a movie critic of the movie, asked for a more detailed definition of the term "politician" and then turned the concept of director into cinema theory which received critic's acclaim. The founder did not claim that it was true, but the supervisor theory itself was not film theory. "The author of Cashier du Cinema always talks about 'the main character of political science'. It is the responsibility of Andrew Sarris to change it to "Oudel theory" (Caughie, 1988, page 24). In the note on the Auteur theory of 1962, Sarris proposed three important features to identify Auteur; the first one is "the technical capacity of the director as a value standard". Secondly, "Director's identifiable character: in a group of movies, the director must demonstrate some repeating style features as his logo" The third assumption is that more mysterious "unique It is meaning.