http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-

greatest-actors-turned-directors

Narrative

• Strong cause-and-effect

• High degree of narrative closure

• Psychologically rounded, goal-driven characters

• Character subordinate to plot

• Fictional world governed by spatial and temporal verisimilitude

• Familiar rules, codes, conventions

• Heterosexual romance normally present as main plot or subplot

Art Cinema/ European

• Loose cause and effect

• Open/ambiguous endings

• Ambiguous characters, often

lacking defined desires/goals

• Plot subordinate to character

• Psychological or social realism

• Experimentation (less

formulaic)

Hollywood

http://movies.amctv.com/movie-

guide/the-50-greatest-directors-of-

all-time/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

‘camera stylo’

Alexandre Astruc: 1948

Refer to a director’s discernable style through

mise-en-scene or to filmmaking practices

where the director’s signature was in evidence

Value personal expression and creativity

A director’s auteurist status emerges from the

consistency of themes, images and styles over

the whole body of his or her work;

Une Certaine Tendance du

Cinema Francais (Francois

Truffaut, 1954)

‘La Politique des auteurs’

The director’s personal expression is key in distinguishing whether they should be afforded

the title of auteur

metteur en scene

Merely adapt material given to them rather

than making it their own…they lack extra

depth involved (Bazin)