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Gangster Films
Comparison Essay # 10644
Gangster Films
Discusses auteur theory, development of a genre. Compares 1932 & 1983 film versions of "Scarface" to illustrate changes in gangster genre films.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
4 sources |
2001
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"The auteur theory developed by French film critics beginning in the 1950s is partly a convenient way of categorizing and analyzing films, collecting titles as the body of work of the director. More than this, though, the theory holds that it is the director more than anyone else who is responsible for the finished film, since he or she is the one who determines visual style and other matters in the course of production. The theory finds that the director expresses meaning through visual style and that analyzing the visual style of a given director reveals consistent thematic concerns, similarities in character development, and other repeated and recognizable signs of a single intelligence at work. At the same time, though, film remains a collaborative medium, and it would seem that directors would be influenced by their..."More papers on Gangster Films:
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