Auter = Author
- Film theory associated with French critic Andre Bazin and wrote for Cashiers du Cinema in the 1950s.
- Suggests that great film directors are artists in their own right on a par with great novelists.
- Films made by a true auteur display thematic consistency and artistic development through time.
- Truffaut - 'A certain tendency in French cinema (1954)' - attacks French tradition in which director is seen as simply adding images to a pre-exisitng literacy scenario.
- Developed in respinse to Hollywood cinema and the criticism that American films are anonymous products of the studio system and culture industry.
Auetur theory in animation
- Animation on one hand echoes and imitates large scale film production processes.
- Arguably one of the most auteurest of film practices.
- On the other hand it offers possibilities for a film maker to operate almost entirely alone.
- Even at most collaborative it requires cohesive intervention of an authorical presence.
Ray Harryhausen
- Arguably maker of 'B' movies but elevated via his use of effects, which creates a distinctive and signature cinematic style.
- Responsible for character development, formation of story and narrative which would allow characters to come into being.
Disney
- Key figure in creation of art, commerce and industry of animation.
- Seen as epitome for American dream, but also ideologically insound and politically correct.
- With the arrival of Mickey Mouse, Disney withdrew to 'organise the organisation'.
- Winnie the Pooh by AA. Milne - Americanised
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