"An Auteurist History of Film" Film Program
The Museum of Modern Art
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This two-year screening cycle is intended to serve as both an exploration of the richness of the Museum’s film collection and a basic introduction to the emergence of cinema as the predominant art form of the twentieth century. The auteurist approach to film—articulated by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s and brought to America by Andrew Sarris—contends that, despite the collaborative nature of the medium, the director is the primary force behind the creation of a film. This exhibition takes this theory as its point of departure, charting the careers of several key figures not in order to establish a formal canon, but to develop one picture of cinematic history.
[Image: D. W. Griffith "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) Acquired from Progress Films]
Media
Schedule
from September 09, 2009 to December 31, 2009
Artist(s)
D. W. Griffith, Thomas Ince, Cecil B. DeMille, Marshall Neilan, King Vidor, Raoul Walsh, Maurice Tourneur, Max Linder, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Charles Chaplin, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Giovanni Pastrone, Mario Caserini, Enrico Guazzoni, Gustavo Serena, André Deed, Thom Anderson, Eadweard Muybridge, Louis Lumière, Auguste Lumière, Max Skladanowsky, Edwin S. Porter, Ferdinand Zecca, Lucien Nonguet, Stuart Blackton, Wallace McCutcheon, Jr., Georges Méliès, Gaston Velle, Segundo de Chomón et al.