As I had missed the first week of class, catching back up with what I had missed was an issue. After a couple of days of reading the lecture notes and watching the clips that were shown in class, I was back up to speed. I watched some of the clips from movies by David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Inland Empire and Wild at Heart) and understood how they are identifiable as Lynch movies over anyone else.
Prior to this class, I have never involved myself with the film studies side of things, after reading some of the notes given out I managed to get to terms with the idea and gradually obtain a good grasp with the terminology.
"This ungainly portmanteau word is the term which regularly describes the best-known conception of authorship".
"This ungainly portmanteau word is the term which regularly describes the best-known conception of authorship".
Michael Foulcalt states that the term "author" is in effect when an individual actually expresses their very own and original concepts in many different ways of expression.
I fully agree with Foulcalt's views as I feel that an author/director's work becomes fully theirs in every way and completely unique in comparison to anything else that anyone would ever create or compose.
He also goes on to say that he doesn't want to focus solely on an individual author/director and study their persona but wants to study how these people became "individualized" in today's culture and looked upon in such a high standard, idolized almost.
He also goes on to say that he doesn't want to focus solely on an individual author/director and study their persona but wants to study how these people became "individualized" in today's culture and looked upon in such a high standard, idolized almost.
"I shall not offer here a socio-historical analysis of the author's persona. Certainly it would be worth examining how the author became individualized in a culture like ours, what status he has been given, at what moment studies of authenticity and attribution began, in what kind of system valorization the author was involved, at what point we began to recount the lives of authors rather than of heroes and how this fundamental category of the "man-and-his-work criticism" began".
I thoroughly agree with Foulcalt's opinions as it is wondered how an author or director becomes so popular within the world of film and how much of an impact one individual's work has on so many people.
An individual that I would say is, without a doubt, Auter is Tim Burton. Everything Burton works within always has his own personal feel, design and style implemented into it. I see him as a huge inspiration to my own designs and storytelling, especially in the stop-motion movies he has directed as I am massively interested in this field of animation. His style and personal take on characters is extremely unique; whenever you see a type of character/scenery, you know for a fact it is a Tim Burton original.
Whenever I see a movie being released that is directed by Tim Burton, I would definitely go and see it. this also strengthens Foulcalt's previous statements. Two movies that Burton directed that I have studied within the past week are Alice in Wonderland and Frankenweenie.
Although these two movies are completely different medias, Burton's style still shines through and you can tell that they are of his design due to the style and world that they characters are living within.
Foulcalt talks quite a lot about the "Author Function" and it made me think about Burton and his movies. Foulcalt talks how we all see directors and authors as being "outside of history" almost and that we specifically search for movies and pieces of work by searching via author, rather than the movie itself or the year etc.
To be honest, I search by author most of the time, specifically Burton, as I enjoy his dark quirky-themed movies. As I fully agree with Foulcalt in this respect, I do not see why this would be a negative aspect of an author.
To be honest, I search by author most of the time, specifically Burton, as I enjoy his dark quirky-themed movies. As I fully agree with Foulcalt in this respect, I do not see why this would be a negative aspect of an author.
By reading over these notes I have gained a great insight about the auter theory and Foulcalt's bold opinions.
I have also learned about the difference and lossage between an author and his character's (when a character speaks, is it simply how they are feeling at that precise moment or is it merely what the author is thinking and wanting to portray to the viewer?)
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I have also learned about the difference and lossage between an author and his character's (when a character speaks, is it simply how they are feeling at that precise moment or is it merely what the author is thinking and wanting to portray to the viewer?)
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References:
Foulcalt. M., 1984. What is an Author? in Paul Rabinow (ed.) The Foulcalt Reader. New York: Pantheon Books.
Barthes, R., 1977. The Death of the Author in Barthes' Image, Music, Text. Glasgow: Fontana.
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