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So when Truffaut publishes la politique des auteurs in nineteen fifty-four he is picking a fight with a house style, not proposing a method.

41:19

The auteur theory as you have it in your reader is Sarris, ten years later, and the translation does a lot of work.

41:47

That is the sentence I want you to have for Thursday: the auteur is a critical instrument, not a compliment.

42:20

So um, let me start that again, if you are writing about Hawks this week, start with the Sarris and not with the film.

43:02

The auteur label attaches to the director, but the person deciding what a film looks like is, uh very often standing next to him.

43:41

Next week we do Hawks properly, and the two essays will be in the folder before Friday so nobody has to ask me for them.

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