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Narrative Strong cause-and-effect High degree of narrative closure Psychologically rounded, goal- driven characters Character subordinate to plot Fictional world governed by spatial and temporal verisimilitude Familiar rules, codes, conventions Heterosexual romance normally present as main plot or subplot Art Cinema/ European Loose cause and effect Open/ambiguous endings Ambiguous characters, often lacking defined desires/goals Plot subordinate to character Psychological or social realism Experimentation (less formulaic) Hollywood

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camera stylo Alexandre Astruc: 1948

Refer to a directors discernable style through mise-en-scene or to filmmaking practices where the directors signature was in evidence Value personal expression and creativity A directors auteurist status emerges from the consistency of themes, images and styles over the whole body of his or her work;

Une Certaine Tendance du Cinema Francais (Francois Truffaut, 1954)

La Politique des auteurs The directors personal expression is key in distinguishing whether they should be afforded the title of auteur

metteur en scene Merely adapt material given to them rather than making it their own…they lack extra depth involved (Bazin)