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Melis Small 03/29/2020 Annie Hall ENG 225 Introduction to Film Theodore Geier

The style of a film helps identify the time period the movie was made, it can also help us identify the technique and the director of the movie. In 1948 French movie critic Alexandre Astruc published an article called Camera Stylo. He argued that cinema too was a language, a form in which and by which an artist can express his thoughts, however abstract they may be, or translate his obsessions exactly as he does in a contemporary essay or novel.(Fabe, , 2004) Directors influenced by this theory such as FranoisTruffaut published an article called the author policy in the French film magazine Cashiers du Cinema (Notebooks on Cinema) in 1954. (Goodykoontz,...