François Mauriac

The concept of Auteur was first introduced by Andre Bazin in an essay featured in a 1954 edition of Cahier du Cinema, often referred to as ‘camera stylo’ or ‘signature style’ as a way of critiquing French new wave cinema. This theory allowed film to be criticised and analysed in the same way as other creative platforms such as art and literature. By identifying the director as auteur as opposed to just ‘Metteur-en-Scène’ it transformed them into an artisté, by assuming creative control they in turn

1st Draft Mark Lennon FACS - Ross Birrell Working Title: Present Systems and Prohibitions in relation to Carnivalesque Grotesque. Synopsis: This essay will investigate wither the principles of Carnival Grotesque during the time of Francois Rabelais' writing still provide a function to berate and liberate us from current societal prohibitions. It draws upon evaluating the writings of Georges Bataille’s Base Materialism and Jean Baudrillard’s critique of consumerist capitalism - specifically that of

The setting of the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is set in America 2053. The mood is sad. People die and books burn. There is a lot of Sci-Fi. The main character didn’t enjoy his job. There are a lot of characters, but i’m going to only name three, Guy Montag, his job is a firefighter who burns books but mentally likes books, he is a protagonist, and a person who changes society. Clarrise, she was spotted by Montag at night. Clarisse likes to talk, and is always in a good mood. She was

The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is about a fireman name Guy Montag. He does the opposite of what firemen does, he starts fires instead of putting them out. What he really loves about his job is burning books. He’s against society just like all the other firemen, at least for now. In the beginning Montag is active in society. “It was a pleasure to burn,” says Montag as he gladly burned books(Bradbury 1). This evidence shows how he loves to burn books. A lot of things he mention determined

Clarisse McClellan- She is a happy, worry-free teenage girl at age 16. She moves in beside on Montag in the beginning of the book. Her character questions everything that she hears and takes time out of her day to think about it. Clarisse tells Guy Montag what the uncle said about the time before when books weren’t illegal and firemen were meant to put out fires not start them. She changes Guy’s perspective of life, making him think about the everyday things more in depth. Adj. adventurous, bubbly

Fahrenheit 451 was written as a warning as to what could be in store for society if humans were to be deprived from intellectualism and awareness. It was written shortly after the closing of World War II, a period of time when many people were oblivious to the censorship being implemented into their lives, but is still relevant in our modern society. The forewarning of the novel is applicable even to this day in modern America. Bradbury used clever symbolism to represent what he was against.

Books are a source of knowledge but, why would someone want to burn them? Fahrenheit 451 was written in 1953 by Ray Bradbury. The genre of this book is considered “dystopian novel”. Dystopian novel is a literature that explore social and political structures. Ray Bradbury wrote this book because there was a lot of book burnings in America. This mainly happened in the late 40’s and early 50’s. So why would these people use to burn books? Was there a reason, or a purpose? The main character in the

visual elements they used in their motion picture. Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock are two well-known directors that use the Auteur Theory in their own unique way that makes each of their films very special. It can be seen the way Francois Truffaut wants us to be part of the film and experience what the characters are feeling and doing in 400 Blows. Though Alfred Hitchcock is seen as getting to the point and fast moving in Psycho. Francois Truffaut is a director that displays the auteur theory

The burning of those books that create discontent by the firemen in the plot of 451 is used to create a passive thinking, politically correct, ignorant society through the censorship of ideas. This idea is present in 451 due to Bradbury’s social context of censorship, which was prevalent during the time Bradbury was constructing the text. This shows that Bradbury has constructed 451 to be a criticism of censorship. The fireman, in Fahrenheit 451, sole job is to burn and destroy books, they burn books

‘Hayao Miyazaki Master of Japanese Animation’ Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, (2002 ed.). Sarris Andrew, ‘Notes on the auteur theory in 1962’, Film culture 27, 1962/1963 (see ‘Film culture reader’, Cooper Square Press; 2nd edition, 2000) Truffaut Francois, ‘A certain tendency of the French cinema’, Cahier du cinema 31, January 1954. In English: Nichols Bill (ed.), ‘Movies and Methods Vol.1’, Berkley, University of California Press, 1976. Online resources: http://studioghibli.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_Mononoke