{"id":30874,"date":"2011-08-01T03:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T03:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/celebration-of-the-auteur-has-become-a-method-of\/"},"modified":"2011-08-01T03:34:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T03:34:02","slug":"celebration-of-the-auteur-has-become-a-method-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/celebration-of-the-auteur-has-become-a-method-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Celebration of the auteur has become a method of strengthening an exploitative labor relation; creative expression becomes a reified commodity\u2014a brand rooted in arbitrary aesthetic idiosyncrasies\u2014that producers distribute to directors (by hiring them on to a project), who themselves then appropriate the labor and creativity of their crew to implement the (often impoverished and clich\u00e9d) stylistic \u201cvision\u201d producers demand. If the directors\u2019 stylistic idiosyncrasies stay market-viable and replicate the experience of their previous films, the producer allows them \u201ccreative freedom\u201d: \u201cArtistic expression\u201d thus becomes an owner-controlled means of production.<br \/>\nAs long as Christopher Nolan keeps selling tickets, he\u2019ll be given money to make entertaining but imaginatively-impoverished films like Inception: But it\u2019s important to note that while he wrote and directed Batman Begins, he also acted as producer on The Dark Knightand Inception. None of these movies are very good, but the latter two are more idiosyncratically managed (although about as artistically innovative as a Michael Bay film). As the producer, he actually had the power to make meaningful decisions; as a developed brand, his executive producers and the studio allowed him to flex his legs. Though he wrote and directed both, Inception is treated as an expression of his vision as an \u201cauteur\u201d, while Batman Begins is a historical footnote.<br \/>\nOn the flip side there\u2019s Shyamalan: As soon as his brand diminished sufficiently, (Lady in the Water and The Happening lost some angry producers a lot of money) he stopped being an \u201cauteur\u201d and instead worked on the completely-surprise-free based-on-a-cartoon young-adult property Avatar: The Last Airbender.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/post\/8128493279\/towards-a-new-film-criticism\">The New Inquiry &#8211; Towards a New Film Criticism<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebration of the auteur has become a method of strengthening an exploitative labor relation; creative expression becomes a reified commodity\u2014a brand rooted in arbitrary aesthetic idiosyncrasies\u2014that producers distribute to directors (by hiring them on to a project), who themselves then appropriate the labor and creativity of their crew to implement the (often impoverished and clich\u00e9d) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-81Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}