THE AUTEUR - HITCHCOCK

- AUTEUR =

director moulds the film

french for author

celebrates role of director as author of film

- CAHIERS DU CINEMA

- like artists

- original work

- creative control

- personal film language

- AUTEUR THEORY BY SARRIS 1962

- technical competence

- WHY HITCHCOCK?

- Europe and USA

- innovation

- master of suspense

- inspired by avant garde but attracts mainstream

- TECHNICAL COMPETENCE

- expressionist lighting

- visual story telling

- subjective camera

- dolly zoom

- montage and cutting to create suspension

- 1920s JOINED FILM INDUSTRY

- started off drawing sets

- Graham Cutts at Gainsborough

- 'The Lodger' 1927 first sully acknowledged film...silent movie, v. expressionistic

- 'Champagne' and 'Jamaica Inn' 1928, subjective camera shots

- MAIN CHARACTERISTICS

- dolly zoom

- cutting and montage

- PERSONALITY

- expressionist... story telling, evoking emotional response

- cameo appearances

- evokes emotion

- narrative as visual

- certain actors (Cary Grant, James Stewart, Tippi Hedren, Doris Day, Joan Fontaine)

- use of blondes...constructs them in certain ways, repressed, virginal, frigid

- suspense, audience can see danger characters can't

- SURREALISM

- collab with Salvador Dali

- DONALD SPOTO

- birds eye view

- FEARS

- small kids

- policemen

- high places

- that his next film won't be as good as his last...