Author's film introduction

As a creative idea, author film was formed in the French film industry in 1950s, and it is also called author theory or author policy theory. Its theoretical origin stems from the article "Camera-fountain pen, the birth of the new avant-garde" published by the famous French director Ya Astrucci in 1948. This paper holds that film has become a tool with a unique language, which can freely express thoughts and feelings, just like a writer writing with a pen. Six years later, F. Truffaut, a famous French director who was still a young film critic at that time, published a paper entitled "Some Tendency of French Film", which criticized Chen's so-called "high-quality film" at that time and clearly put forward the concepts of "film author" and "author film" for the first time. In the following years, the concepts of "film author" and "author's film" gained the "film handbook school", which developed into an "author" theory that highly affirmed the director's personality and despised the vulgar creation phenomenon. The "author theory" directly influenced and contributed to the emergence of "new wave" films in France, and influenced the film creation in other countries, which played a positive role in encouraging artistic innovation, improving the director's position in the studio and reducing the interference of the factory on the creation.