Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

What is Auteur Theory? | Deep Focus


What Is Auteur Theory? 

See also...

Truffaut on the Auteur Theory

Explore...

House of Flying Daggers: A Reappraisal

House of Flying Daggers – Ending Notes

Shaun of the Dead - 'The Plan' montage

Understanding Fallen Angels

Editing Captain Fantastic

Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

Under the Skin - Film Form, Narrative and Ideology

Superimposition in film

House of Flying Daggers - flashcards

Jonathan Glazer on Under the Skin

New...

Vacancies

November 2025 GCSE Examinations

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

Correspondence from the Exams Office

Parents Evening :: Year 12

WAR HORSE, Norwich Theatre Royal, Thursday 6th November 2025 Places available

December Mock Examinations

January 2026 Examinations

Discover...

Auteur Theory Film Studies Examinations GCE ZEN A Level Term Dates Parent YouTube Applications Films Avant-Garde Short Film Year 9 Trips Admissions Old Hollywood mock Year 11 GCSE Drama Silent Film Captain Fantastic

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...