'in a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active / male and passive / female. Determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure which is styled accordingly.'
What are the three components to Andrew Sarris's autuer theory?
Technical competence
Interior meaning
Distinctive style
What is Pauline Kael's argument?
Technical competence is irrelevant when exciting experimental films exist
Directors copy one another - nothing is distinctive
Why waste tie watching mediocre films to find personality?
Pauline Kael
'the smell of a skunk is more distinguishable than a rose: does that make it better?'
