Auteurship is french and suggests that film makers are in there own right artists. True Auteurs have a thematic consistency and artistic development through time. Paul Wells stated that a true auteur has a ‘unique signature’ on a film.
It is recognised as a response to Hollywood cinema how american films are generic, through the culture industry.
Truffaut, a certain tendency in french cinema, attacks french tradition where french films provide images for literacy.
Discourse, area for discussion.
Animation imitates large scale film production.
Offers possibility for a film maker to work alone.
Most auteurist.
Even collaborations requires an auteurist presence.
Few animators are landed as auteurs in relation to feature length animation, mainly this is because feature length animations require a lot of work and many hands so they are generally subsumed by a corporate identity. Also there is a persistent conception animation is for children and is not taken seriously by adults.
Disney, Key figure in the animation business a global corporate giant. The epitome of the american, but politically incorrect and ideologically unsound. Mostly drawn animation including set making. It is often said that the original work done by disney such as slices adventures, is authorial. But the arrival of Mickey signifies it moving in the corporate direction and from there on any animators who worked under disney had there name stripped from the work and Disney kept the overall idea, ownership and vision. Disney went on to adopt some popular books that are cult classics and remake the illustrations into animations for stories like Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio and Winnie the Pooh, is taking on someone else’s work, through flat illustrations and bringing them to life the sign of an auteur? In my opinion I don;t like how Walt Disney treated others and the way he went about getting to the top. Although Fantasia is one of my favourite films and is the very first film i saw remastered in the cinema and has inspired me from a young age, I think as company even though it makes millions, socially and ethically I think there’s still a lot wrong with it’s morals. And therefore I can’t personally promote him as being an auteur even though he started off as one, because to me Walt Disney doesn’t deserve any romantic recognition. To me disney is just always there, like an elephant in the room. I don’t hate it and I don’t love it.
Ray Harryhausen,
The famous created of ‘B’ Movies that were elevated by his special effects, and they really were special effects. He created King Kong, Tales of the arabian and Sinbad. I find it really amusing that he didn’t want to be classed as a an animator because in cinemas they were only seen as been a thing for children so he created his own new title, Dynamation.
His auteurial signature is often marked as the character and development and formation of the story and the narrative. Although in my opinion the homemade mythical creatures and legends are what make the films.
Avant Guard!
French military term for the pawns in medieval battle. Utopian socialists apply it to the leaders of artist’s, scientists, inventors and literary leaders. Those that push the boundaries, progress to be more modern, by doing things differently.
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