François Mauriac

but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure." Francois Truffaut. Auteur Theory suggests that the best films will bear their maker’s ‘signature’. Discuss The Auteur Theory was born out of a group of influential french filmmakers and critics of the 1950s. Its origins stem from a french film magazine Cahiers du Cinema and in particular an article written by Francois Truffaut titled ‘A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema.’ Truffaut was a french director

(AGG) Bradbury’s message about technology means that people can spend too much time with media that can affect people in many ways. (BS-1) People who are associated with technology are being destroyed emotionally and physically. (BS-2) By using too much media there are major effects of the people in the society. (BS-3) This proves that a person who gets away from technology can gain their key trait back. (TS) Bradbury’s message is trying to prove that technology can be very absorbing, and people

children chase the lovers when the man chases the women. Gérard shows his brutal and child like nature when he chases one of his tormentors, when he gets him he slaps him, a primal and a beast just like children would curl. The spectacle of the lovers is always accompanied by either screams or whispers and extremely agitated and exciting body languages. The children are constantly reactive to the spectacle of the love that they are seeing. The second motif will be the connection between love and

Summer reading 9th-10th Fahrenheit 451 Background: this story takes place in a futuristic USA where the country is at the brink of war. Tensions between other countries are increasing and soldiers are being deployed to their stations. Although all of this is happening citizens of the US believe that the world will be short and quick and the soldiers will be back home within a week. Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn books. Essentially, guy’s job is to start fires supposed to put them

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn” (Bradbury 89). One of the many thought-provoking quotes in Ray Bradbury’s novel: Fahrenheit 451. Set in a dystopian future, this novel explores a world absent of imagination and individuality. The populace in this story are obstructed from any form of enriching or meaningful media. They consume mindless entertainment often and abstain from social interaction with each other. Our main character (Guy Montag) is a firefighter who’s

The short film Les Mistons or otherwise translated meaning The Brats. In 1957 age 25, Truffaut is already an accomplished writer and theorization of cinema. Along with his adoptive brothers, he is changing the way we will think and talk about cinema. They have already changed the cinema and discourse. Very soon all of them will make their first film. Truffaut is the first one to start to fully have the adventure. In 1957 in the offices of ARTS, he makes a friend with a young writer and publishes

In the title of her poem “Guys like Gauguin” Marsh refers to Gauguin as a ‘guy’ which is closely followed by a sarcastic ‘thanks Bougainville’ without capitalising the thanks. Together the techniques of anaphora and informal language create a compounding effect, by referring to these colonisers and the direct address towards Gauguin diminishing his achievements and many other celebrated European ‘discovers’ who have exploited foreign countries through invasion. marsh being a tuvaluan and samoan

“Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.” Born on April 22nd, 1946 in Baltimore, Maryland, John Samuel Waters Jr. grew up with a passion for film. From a young age, Waters was dabbling with movies of the silent variety, bring people into churches that he would rent out to screen them. This spark of life he’d breathe into his beginning of career would forever set the stage as an auteur for the ages. Auteur can otherwise be defined as doing what you want as a

First of all, where does carnivalesque come from? This concept was coined by Mikhail Bakhtin who said it embodied life taking from of a typical carnival. The way things are obscured, or not how they typically would be, essentially life turned inside out is the idea of carnivalism. Without carnival, life remains as usual and therefore it is impossible to point out the obscure nature of what is natural life (Johae, “Bakhtinian Carnivalesque” 304). Luhrmann had used many carnival elements to represent

“The Film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has,” a quote by Francois Truffaut. This quote explains Truffaut’s belief in the Auteur theory and how films should become more personal to it’s director. Also, he mentions that the number of spectators would be equal to the number of “friends” the director had, and I think he meant that since film’s were so personal, viewers were connected in some way