Visual Culture - Agency, The Auteur and The Audience Lecture

Visual Culture - Agency, Auteur and the audience

Agency - Social construct - capacity, condition of state of acting or exerting effective action or power

Auteur - A film director whose practice, style over a production of a film

Audience - The body that receives and interprets the work, imaginative or real 

Theory - Understands role of the film director in terms as director as author 

Personal and/or collective agency informs creative process and work produced

The outcome of the creative process lies in the degree to which the author is given free reign to be an active auteur 

"Key agent"

Woody Allen 

1.) Author produces work they want - audiences are given what they want

2.) Rhetoric of agent impose authority over collective agency - audiences is given what agent thinks they want

3.) Key agency or agent holds authority in negotiation and they get the outcome from creative agent

4.) Compromise is often key to negotiate and both parties enter into dealing which work is produced that is valued by both parties

Charlie Chaplin - auteur 

1.) The Great Dictator

2.) Dark and Lonely Water - Public Information Film

2,)  End Morris and The Interrotron

3.) Spontaneous Applause
4.) Oh! What A Lovely War.