Word: auteurism
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Jean-Luc Godard has said that he would have been a writer had the medium of film not been available to him, but that film is simply the best way of expressing himself. Like Orson Welles, he is a prime exponent of the auteur theory of filmmaking, i.e., that the director is responsible for all aspects of his film...
...movie. It's a sure-fire success formula--not exactly a sublime collaboration of great artists, let alone unusually talented craftsmen. Rosemary's Baby, then, would be easy to dismiss as a slack and inadequate thriller were it not for everyone's desire to take Polanski seriously as an auteur...
Were he a better film-maker, someone with a decent sense of camera and editing, we could call him an auteur and grant him his own strange bag, but as it stands now, all we can do is wonder where on earth the man's mind...
BILL HALEY is the earliest rock auteur (which chronologically places him somewhere between Johnny Ray and Elvis Presley). Not only did Haley accomplish rock's conquest of the pop charts with Rock Around the Clock, he molded a cheerful, sincerely synthetic style that brought him hits like Shake, Rattle, and Roll and See Ya Later, Allgiator, and enabled him and his Comets to appropriate any old song for rock's use--remember, for instance, Rockin' Through the Rye. (While speaking of Haley, we might note the best successor to his practices, Johnny and the Hurricanes. Though not properly belonging...
...second rank only in recent years, as students have come to appreciate the Boom-Boom's husky, 150 per cent voice, the kind that anyone can imitate if he doesn't mind being hoarse the rest of the day. Cannon's best song, Palisades Park, is extra-auteur; he owes his place to the "whoooo" of Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Talla-hassie Lassie, and Transistor Sister...