Topic > n seems to describe the directors of New Hollywood. Martin Scorsese, with his violent films, often focusing on Italian-Americans and mostly set in New York, is perfect. A “distinctive quality” allows the public to recognize a director among many in the industry; Scorsese is therefore an auteur, an auteur and an excellent example of the theory of American auteurs. What makes Scorsese particularly interesting is the fact that he (and the others listed) are not as dark as Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Although large numbers of Americans are familiar with new wave French films, they are not exactly mainstream, nor have they ever been. Woody Allen and his films are the opposite: the size of his film catalog and the use of famous and iconic actors have made his films accessible and widely known to American audiences. Charles Paul Freund of The Washington Post described Allen in 1992 as an "autobiographical auteur", with films such as Annie Hall and Manhattan being fictional interpretations of Allen's life. Annie Hall, perhaps Allen's most popular film, won four Academy Awards in 1978, including Best Picture. The Academy Awards themselves are well known for awarding recognition to the crème de la crème of cinema that year, and at the same time, they have been widely appreciated by the American public and even the world: each year's Oscar audience has consistently been on the rise. has been growing for years, with last year's ceremony totaling 43.7 million views in the US alone (O'Connell, TV Ratings). The widespread exposure of subjectively “good” films has allowed the average person access to films created by auteurs and, as a result, has allowed the auteur to become mainstream. Of course, this is a manifestation of the 2000s; Woody Allen and his generation of directors came onto the scene in the 1970s, just as films like theirs were just beginning to receive recognition from the average person. But when the recognition of individualized cinema came into play, more often than not only good films were considered auteur products: Andrew Sarris, however, pointed out in 1962 that the auteur could still be found in bad directors, long before the times of Michael Bay. and M. Night Shyamalan. Referring to the films of Philippe de Broca and Édouard Molinaro, Sarris writes: "There may be some discussion of the relative badness of [their films], but, otherwise, the directors have held to form by almost any objective criterion of value" ( Sarris, Notes). Even the famous author François Truffaut once said: "There are no good and bad films, only good and bad directors", which in itself suggests that whether a director has had such an impact on the film industry that he is considered good or bad , then the quality described is indicative of authoritativeness (Chaudhuri, Auteur Theory). There have been bad films since the beginning of cinematography, but in an age when making a film was considerably more difficult than in the 21st century, early films in the first half of the 1900s tended to be remembered and exposed to future generations only when they were good. With the advent of the Internet and the ability to access a film through multiple mediums, the film industry has reached a point where it can cater to a wide variety of audiences. Action films tend to lack depth in their stories, but their special effects and gimmicks can be associated with directors like Michael Bay, who, despite the flaws of his films, had such an impact on the industry that his films can be easily identified. and earn him the designation of author. The concept of authorship in Hollywood has become so different from the original visions of the authors of the Cahiers duCinéma and even by Andrew Sarris which could also be separated from its original definition. Doesn't American authority necessarily have to consider the quality of a film, and if so, does that make it a bad thing? In Robert W. Welkos' 1996 interview with Andrew Sarris, Sarris said that his original 1962 article was not the product of an objective. Sarris said: “I wasn't interested in pushing one profession over another. I argued that many of the American directors who had been underestimated were as good as foreign arthouse directors and that the best American films are generally genre films” (Welkos, In Theory). Sarris explained that genre films – which in themselves are so distinctly American – were the only thing that made them very different from the works of many European directors. Genre films have transformed in such a way that if the film isn't even that good, at least its saving factor can be the way its genre composes the film. A science fiction film with flimsy characters and a difficult plot can be saved by fantastic special effects and intuitive additions to the genre. One film that comes to mind is Christopher Nolan's latest film, Interstellar, which peaked at only 74% on Rotten Tomatoes despite expectations that it would be the best film of 2014. The New Yorker's David Denby writes: “Interstellar, a spectacular and redundant puzzle, one hundred and sixty-seven minutes long, makes you feel virtuous for having tackled it rather than happy to have seen it” (Denby, “Love and Physics” ). The film received reviews that ranged from praise to disdain, but many reviewers noted the classic Christopher Nolan touch seen in the Dark Knight trilogy and Inception. While Interstellar may not have been a "good" genre film - if genre films are characteristic of the American auteur - it still qualifies to promote Christopher Nolan as an auteur if it still has the confusing, but distinctive qualities of the film type. he is known for his talent. Authority in Hollywood is different from authority in Europe; that we have established. And it's so unique, so complex, that it's still hard to define what American auteurism truly is: if it's a genre film, isn't the director an auteur if it's bad? And does the film catalog of a single director have to be coherent in order to be declared an author? Ang Lee, the Taiwanese director of films like Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi, has such a varied filmography that his style can hardly be called coherent. Yet the efforts he puts into his films result in quality entertainment. Perhaps a director who puts such hard work into his films truly encapsulates the traditional idea of ​​achieving the “American Dream,” and that American authority is simply an offshoot of that. Andrew Sarris writes in Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962, “The three premises of the auteur theory can be visualized as three concentric circles: the outer circle as technique; the middle circle, personal style; and the inner circle, the inner meaning. The corresponding roles of the director can be designated as those of technician, stylist and author. There is no prescribed path through which a director travels the three circles” (Sarris, Notes). Throughout his article, Sarris makes it very clear that there is no specific definition of authorship; as he suggests here, even an author is not always necessarily the director. Quentin Tarantino, for example, is a director known for his extravagant action films that incorporate elements of film noir and westerns, but he himself attributes the success of his films to his editor, Sally Menke. After his death in 2010, Tarantino told the Huffington Post that when it came to giving the last.