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Kael was an opponent of the auteur theory, criticizing it both in her reviews and in interviews. She preferred to analyze films without thinking about the director's other works. Andrew Sarris , a key proponent of the theory, debated it with Kael in the pages of The New Yorker and various film magazines.
- University of California, Berkeley
- September 3, 2001 (aged 82), Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.
- June 19, 1919, Petaluma, California, U.S.
- Film critic
6 de oct. de 2020 · Thus, the problem starts here, as Pauline Kael brilliantly identifies while discussing how certain directors are regarded as auteurs while others are not: “There is no rule or theory involved in any of this, just simple discrimination; we judge the man from his films and learn to predict a little about his next films, we don’t ...
3 de oct. de 2016 · October 3, 2016 at 3:31pm by Jessica Rafalko. About midway through her rebuttal to Andrew Sarris’s “Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962,” Pauline Kael articulates the gripe I’d already scribbled in the margins of my textbook: “ auteur critics tend to downgrade writer-directors—who are in the best position to use the film ...
22 de abr. de 2022 · One notable critic was Pauline Kael, who argued (amongst other things) that auteur theory suggested that even poor films were meritorious simply because of the involvement of a director that was an auteur, and that it was impossible to understand auteurship in the moment; a director’s whole of body of work would need to be assessed ...
Pauline Kael was the first serious critic of the auteur theory. Without question, her famously acerbic 1963 response to Sarris continues to raise important questions about the theory’s persuasiveness, questions taken up and elaborated by many other critics and scholars since the early 1960s.
24 de jun. de 2009 · Richard Brody. Auteur, Auteur. June 24, 2009. While I was out, the reader Driedchar posted a fascinating comment regarding our recent discussion of Pauline Kael and her famous essay against...
The Auteur Theory And The Perils Of Pauline Pauline Kael's article "Circles and Squares," in our last issue, was a blistering attack on the "auteur" school of criticism as it has been seen in the work of Andrew Sarris and such journals as "Movie" and the "New York Film Bulletin." Mr. Sarris has sent us the following article as his reply.
