Week 8★Nov 29th AUTEUR

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Agnes Varda (1928-2019)
Required Readings:
“Auteur Theory”.2014. In the Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory, eds. Edward Branigan & Warren Buckland, Routledge, 2014,

Astruc, Alexandra,2011. “The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Camera-Stylo”, Critical Visions in Film Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings, eds. Timothy Corrigan, Patricia White with Meta Mazaj, Bedford/St. Martin’s, pp350-354

Sarris, Andrew. 2011. “The Auteur Theory Revisited”, Critical Visions in Film Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings, eds. Timothy Corrigan, Patricia White with Meta Mazaj, Bedford/St. Martin’s, pp354-361
NOTE: this is how Sarris rethinks his auteur theory.


Reference Reading:
FOR MA students
Bazin, Andre. 1985. “On the politique des auteurs”, Cahier du Cinema--the 1950s: Neorealism, Hollywood, New Wave. Eds. Jim Hiller. Harvard University Press, 1985. P5-14 & p248-259


Stam, Robert.2000. “The Cult of the Auteur”, Film Theory: an Introduction, Blackwell Publishing, 

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