Exam 14: Film Authorship

Osumane Sembene turned to filmmaking in part because ________.

Kathryn Bigelow's war film The Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker reveals the influence of both Sam Peckinpah,famous for his bloody Westerns,and Douglas Sirk,famous for his melodramatic 'weepies."

Who among the following was NOT a vocal advocate auteur theory?

Early auteur critics championed ________.

Kathryn Bigelow is noted as a contemporary auteur for her idiosyncratic romantic comedies.

Identify and describe two ways a film scholar could use the auteur theory to study the work of a director. Use an example from a film screened in class to support your ideas.

Which of the following would NOT be used as a criterion to evaluate the work of an auteur according to the American version of the theory?

Describe (in 1-2 sentences)ONE of the commonly used arguments against the auteur theory.

The early auteur critics did NOT ________.

In 1-2 sentences,briefly describe how an "average" director differs from an auteur director,according to François Truffaut's 1954 essay,"A Certain Tendency in French Cinema."

Cahiers du Cinema is/was ________.

Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa made a name for himself internationally with the release of ___________________.

Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr.Fox demonstrates how auteur critics value a director's ability to explore new stylistic devices and subject matter from film to film.

When they were marketing United 93 (one of the first films to tackle the terrorist attacks on September 11,2001),why did studio heads try to hide the fact that director Paul Greengrass had directed two entries in the extraordinarily popular Bourne trilogy?

Alfred Hitchcock's career epitomized the director as auteur because ________.

The shift to a corporate entertainment environment in the 1980s and 1990s eradicated the hope that Hollywood could cultivate a culture of the film auteur.

The case of Ousmane Sembene demonstrates how the auteur critic can ______________________.

________ would be considered an auteur.

Wes Anderson's obsession with carefully dressing his characters in distinctive clothing is part of his artistic signature.

Universal released a "director's cut" of Orson Welles's ________ in 1998,basing the changes to the original release on notes outlined by the director in a detailed memo written to the studio written before the film's original release.