The Auteur Theory Reexamined
1966; University of Texas Press; Volume: 6; Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1225411
ISSN1527-2087
Autores Tópico(s)Cinema and Media Studies
Resumowhat it is or purports to be. But, do we really have a complete picture of the Politique des Auteurs? I have attempted to draw together some of the more basic writing about the theory (much of it from original French sources) in the hope of gaining a better understanding of what the theory was intended to be and do and what it might mean to serious students of film today. The development of the auteur theory and the subsequent controversy over it can be traced both chronologically and geographically. It can be followed from its start in 1954 and brought up to the present; similarly it can be considered as a flow from France to England and on to the United States. It started in Paris in 1954 (this has been erroneously reported as 1957 in some film journals) with the publication of an article by Francois Truffaut in the monthly periodical Cahiers du Cinema. 1 Jacques DoniolValcroze who was an editor of Cahiers du Cinema at that time has said:
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