Auteur Theory
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Film auteur theory arose as a concept between the 1950s and the early 1960s as an evaluative process putting film directors in a hierarchal genre perspective (Caughie, 1982, 62). It is the basis of film critique, that…

Movies can be classified in many different ways and foreign films are usually overloioked in the United States. This paper is the result of two questions. The first asks about the auteur theory of film and whether the two films listed were a part of that school and how the directors of the two films used similar styles. The second question has to do with Italian neorealism and how the two films in this discussion received accolades despit low viewership.

The term auteur emanates from France and it means author, which in film theory implies that a film by a director mirrors their artistic and ingenious vision. In accordance to Pearson and Simpson (2001), an auteur is…