GENRE ANALYSIS

Christopher Nolan First of all, based on Andrew Sarris’s notes on The auteur Theory (1962), auteur is a French term for artist whose vision and personality is “written” into a text and auteur-centered criticism views that art as the ‘expression of the emotions, experience and worldview of an artist”. In auteur theory does contain these two important elements which is mise-en-ecene which means everything that creates the visual “world” of the movie and its overall atmosphere and the other element is metteurs en scene which Truffaut argues that not all good directors are auteurs. Peter Jackson for instance which despite he has written his own film has adapted someone else’s work and he removed certain scene and we can assume that Jackson is a good director but lack of credential to be called as an auteur. However, regarding to the director that I’ve chosen which is Christopher Nolan who directed Dunkirk (2017), he can be a good example of the director who can be considered as auteur. His