Hartismere School

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

Home Login

The end of the auteur?


Auteur theory says a director’s vision is present in every frame. What happens if they turn out to be a liability?

Explore...

House of Flying Daggers - mise-en-scene

Understanding Fallen Angels - To be a Lost Soul

How Vertigo foreshadowed ‘catfishing’, AI and #MeToo

Do the Right Thing - Screenshot podcast

Vertigo Film Score Analysis

Quiz: How well do you remember Vertigo?

Why Are Wong Kar-Wei Films so Dreamy?

House of Flying Daggers - Wuxia Romance

David Lynch’s Vertigo

Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag

New...

Duke of Edinburgh Portal

Music club timetable

January 2026 Examinations

Teacher of English - (Maternity cover - Possible TLR available)

Summer 2026 Examinations

Spring Term Sports Club

Whiplash Final Scene - Andrew Neyman's Performance

The Misleading Ending of Whiplash

Discover...

Vertigo Hitchcock Auteur ZEN Film Studies GCE Jobs Test Do The Right Thing A Level Clubs And Activities Physical Education British Film Institute After School Clubs Sound Engineering Sport YouTube Aesthetics Buster Keaton American Cinema Crashcourse Assessment

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...