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Television writer David Weddle says –
“Film theory as practiced in the early 2000s, is a form <strong>of</strong> bait
and switch, taking advantage <strong>of</strong> young, would be film-makers, anyone in
Hollywood film making who used film theory terms like “fibula” and
“Syuzhet” would be laughed <strong>of</strong>f the lot.”
Roger Ebert sys, -
“Film theory has nothing to do with film.”
Film historian Kevin Brownlows says, “Academic film theorists are typically
quite aggressively Marxist”.
In 2008, German film maker Werner Herzog sys –
“Theoretical film studies has become really awful, that’s not how
you should study film, abolish these courses and do something
else which makes much more sense.”
Some theories <strong>of</strong> film as follows
1) Apparatus Theory :-
It derived in part form Marxist film theory, semiotics and
psychoanalysis, was a dominant theory within cinema studies during
1907s. It maintains that cinema is by nature ideological because its
mechanics <strong>of</strong> representation are ideological. Its mechanics or
representation include camera and editing. This theory argues that
cinema maintains the dominant ideology <strong>of</strong> the culture within the
viewer. Ideology is not imposed on cinema, but is part <strong>of</strong> its nature.
Apparatus theorists like – Jacque Lacan, Louis Althusser, Jean-Louis
Baudry, Jean- Louis Comolli, Christian Metz, Giorgio Agamben,
Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, Constance penley.
2) Auteur Theory :-
In film critism, auteur theory holds that a directors film reflects the
director’s personal creative vision. Auteur French word meaning
“author”. The production <strong>of</strong> film as a part <strong>of</strong> an industrial process,
the auteurs creative voice is distinct enough to Shine through all
kinds <strong>of</strong> studio interference and through the collective process. The
auteur, as the creator <strong>of</strong> the film, is the original copyright holder.
European Union Law Says –
“The film director is considered the author or one <strong>of</strong> the
authors <strong>of</strong> a film, largely as a result <strong>of</strong> the influence <strong>of</strong>
auteur theory.”
The theory influences film criticism since 1954, it was advocated by
film director and critic Francois Truffaut. This was originally associated with
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