Auteur

Question 1

The director is the primary ____ force

Answer 1

Creative

Question 2

Technically ______

Answer 2

Competent

Question 3

Through which aspects do films have a distinguishable personality?

Answer 3

Recurring motifs and themes

Question 4

What does viewing films from the auteur perspective create?

Answer 4

A new paradigm to evaluate cinema, placing auteurs in a historical and creative context

Question 5

What does the auteur theory place emphasis on?

Answer 5

The directors body of work as a whole rather than individual films

Question 6

What sort of position is the director in?

Answer 6

A unique and irreplaceable position of personal artistic perspective whereby the film is is a product of that perspective

Question 7

What does auteur theory explore the notions of?

Answer 7

Individual creative vision and control in cinema

Question 8

What is the film situated as?

Answer 8

The characterised output of a creative individual in response to the economic and productive tensions in film making

Question 9

What is Hitchcock influenced by as an auteur ?

Answer 9

German expressionism and soviet montage cinema

Question 10

Features of soviet films of the 1920s

Answer 10

Elaborate editing techniques

Question 11

Where did Hitchcock derive his fondness of the point of view shot?

Answer 11

The kuleshov effect

Question 12

Kuleshov effect

Answer 12

Building sequences by cross cutting between person seeing and things seen