Editing Auteur Theory and the Director as Artist (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Analyzing</span> ==
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|+ Auteur Signatures: Five Directors
! Director !! Visual Signature !! Thematic Obsession !! Key Work
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| Stanley Kubrick || "Symmetrical one-point perspective" || "Institutional dehumanization" || "2001, Full Metal Jacket"
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| Alfred Hitchcock || "Voyeuristic camera, MacGuffin" || "Guilt, desire, the wrong man" || "Vertigo, Rear Window"
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| Akira Kurosawa || "Weather as moral state, telephoto compression" || "Honor, duty, samurai ethics" || "Seven Samurai, Rashomon"
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| Wes Anderson || "Flat planes, centered framing, pastel palette" || "Found family, melancholy nostalgia" || "The Royal Tenenbaums"
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| Wong Kar-wai || "Handheld, step-printing, mirrors" || "Time, memory, unrequited love" || "In the Mood for Love"
|}

'''The ''Rashomon'' Problem''': Kurosawa's 1950 film presents four contradictory accounts of the same event. It is simultaneously the definitive auteur statement (unmistakably Kurosawa's in every frame) and the ultimate argument against singular authorship (whose truth is the film's truth?). The auteur theory and the ''Rashomon'' problem sit in permanent productive tension.
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