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This 10 page paper discusses three films by Alfred Hitchcock (“The 39 Steps,” “Rope” and “The Birds”) as well as what makes him an “auteur” director. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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films: The 39 Steps (1935); Rope (1948); and The Birds (1963). Discussion The word "auteur" is French for "author" and when its applied to a film director, is usually
taken to mean that the person has such a strong personal vision that his films are immediately recognizable as his. That is, someone could walk into a theater and take
a look at the film and know immediately that it was by Hitchcock, without ever seeing his name. His "fingerprints" are on the film in the form of the subject
matter of course, but also in the way he sets up his shots, moves his actors around the set, uses lighting and so on. Although legendary actor Marcello Mastroianni said
that he preferred "not to use the hackneyed term auteur," (Mastroianni 18), it still seems the best way to explain why some directors works leap off the screen while others,
competent and enjoyable, are not as memorable. Auteur directors, whose ranks include Orson Welles, John Ford, and George Cukor among others, all have a "unique style and vision" that
marks their films as unique to them (Fabe 135). In their book about Hitchcock, Claude Chabrol and Eric Rohmer, who are "French auteur theorists and directors," note that "Hitchcocks films
are deeply infused with anxiety, guilt, and existential angst, which they trace to his Catholic upbringing and education" (Fabe 135). The late Francois Truffaut, also a noted filmmaker of the
French "new wave" cinema, wrote a book about Hitchcock based on more than 50 hours of interviews he had conducted with his fellow director (Fabe). In his introduction, Truffaut "makes
the claim that Hitchcock was an explorer of metaphysical anxieties on a part with Kafka, Dostoevsky, and Poe, and that his works became more complex and profound as his career
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