Word: auteurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...describe the Auteur Theory of Rock as a mimicking poor relation to the Politique des Auteurs of the cinema initially clears but ultimately muddies the water which supports this important new mode of rock 'n' roll study...
...Truffaut mode of movie analysis is filled in a comparably all-important manner by the singer. This role, to oversimplify by way of introduction, is to personalize unmistakably the final product. More than creating a recognizable style (for in the main, the human voice is inherently distinctive), the rock auteur utilizes his style to transcend his material. The content of the artist's songs is subjugated, and in fact it sometimes becomes difficult to differentiate within the auteur's oeuvre...
There are any number of critical theories running around the world, each more insistant than the last that it alone is on to what the cinema should be. In last month's Cahiers Jean-Louis Comolli called for salles claires, half-lighted movie theatres to point up the auteur's conscious intent. Good films, like this one, create their own clarity...
...goes around telling Division Three Seductresses, "Listen, baby, I'm old enough to find my own broads. So get lost." He is the character American actor Eddie Constantine created on French television after Constantine flopped in the U.S. Now he's Jean-Luc Godard's hero in the French auteur's latest flick to hit the Brattle's screen, "Alphaville...