Reading Notes Pages 51-62

    I have heard about the French film critic Andre Bazin before but I did not know a lot about him, so it is great that the textbook talks about him and his influence of Film Theory. In my previous film classes I have studied about his Auteur Theory that the film director is the author of the film and that the auteur is a film director that has the same distinctive style in each film. 

    The first auteur director that came in my mind is Alfred Hitchcock. As an auteur he collaborated with the same people for different films, he has recurring themes and motives in his films, similar story composition and similar portrayal of gender roles. Also, most of his movies are psychological thrillers, the main character is usually a blonde woman. Hitchcock uses dramatic camera angles, different types of camera angles to create suspicion, danger, shock, mystery. He also uses different lighting, colors, and extreme close-ups scenes to show details and to portray suspense.

    I like how Bazin classified the cinema and how he put it before everything. How he talks that the cinema has the ability to record event in time and how it is above painting and photography. As an artist who is interested in all of the things painting, drawing, photography and film I agree with Bazin that nothing can be compared with the cinema and the film. That is like that because neither the paintings or the photography have the ability to move. The film represents all of the things because it has motion, so it is like a painting or photography that is moving. The film is the most complex thing and it can show a hundred of things and details even in a minute. 

This is a great video that talks about how Andre Bazin defined cinema

The trailer of Vertigo, my favorite Alfred Hitchcock's film

The best portrayal of human's obsession and psychology