- The Auteur theory: advantages, limitations and alternatives
- Authorship in TV : Who has creative control
Executive Producer - Primarily responsible for Financial control but may have creative input, particularly in editing and post production stages.
Producer - Primarily supervises production logistics & Budget in tandem with director. May originate project and usually hires writers and directors and be involved in casting.
Director - Primarily responsible for creative vision and creative decisions in collaboration with creative team.
Writer - Responsible for authoring original script or adapting existing literary material.
Changing face of creative control.
Cinema
Silent Era (Director) 1900 1927
Studio Era (Producer)1930s -60s
New Wave (Directors and writer/directors) 1960s-80s
TV
Golden age (Producers and Writers) 50s-60s
New Wave (Producers and Directors) 1960-70s
Writers (1980s-Present)
Producer-writers and show runners.
Origins of Autuer Theory
Reaction against bland commercial cinema where the director was largely regarded as chief technician who just shot the script.
Critics wanted instead a cinema d'auteurs : Directors who expressed an individualistic world view and use of mise-en-scene.
Three Key Criteria that define a auteur
1) The technical competence of the director - ability to organise a film with clarity and coherence
2) The Distinguishable Personality of the Director - Recurring signature style
3) Interior Meaning - The cinematic art created from tension between a directors personality and his material.
Doesn't recognise collaborative nature of film and television and contribution of writers and technicians.
What directors were actually trying to portray was secondary to the actual visualisation on screen.
very few directors have final cut.
Genre Theory vs Auteur Theory.
Genre focuses on Generic similarities, how texts are determined by historical/social/political contexts.
How text emerge as commercial products from an industry.
Auteur Theory focuses on
Individual stylistic features.
How Text are determined by directors creativity
how text emerges as part of a directors body of work.
NOTE - Research Stephen Poliakoff
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