The next film we will be looking at is Citizen Kane...what do you already know about this film?
We'll be looking at the mise-en-scene and discussing Kane's auteur presence in the film...He is a director with distinctive approach, setting him apart from standardized fare of Hollywood.
Are you familiar with the auteur theory?
have yet to watch this film, shall rent it out from the library and be sure to read up on auteur theory before i comment more.
ReplyDeleteCheers for the comment Brian. We are watching this next week.
ReplyDeleteJust wondered if anyone had any knowledge of the production/ director/ inspiration for the film...etc...All will be covered next week.
Great - sure look in to auteur. :-)
I havn't seen this film yet so i don't know much about it.
ReplyDeleteI did study the auteur theory during A level film, but perhaps i need to refresh my memory of it.
I remember that the theory was coined up by French scholars during the 50's (i believe that Francois Truffaut and Jean Luc-Goddard were among them?). Basically they shunned French cinema at the time and worshipped american/british directors such as Orson Welles and (my old fav) Alfred Hitchcock for their stylistic/visual approaches to cinema.
The term "auteur" was therefore given to directors who were considered artists of cinema :)
Hmm I did read that when the film was made back in 1941, Audiences were keen to see the film as it was widely regarded as a disguised version of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, so people viewed the film hoping to see events or referances to Hearsts life. However i cannot take credit for this information as there is a huge section on this film in Film Art an introduction 4th edition.
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