Eric

The Auteur as a figure in entertainment is dead. Grown strong on digital production, a more artistically bankrupt creature emerges in their place. It is the Executive Auteur, and it's coming soon to a theater near you, whether you like it or not.

If you've noticed all manner of artists increasingly taking a back seat in the discourse to studios and franchises, if you're weirded out by how much more valued a corporation's vision seems to be than the interchangeable drones tasked with realizing that vision, this article is for you.

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Chimerelda E. Error, layabout @chimerror1/31/2023, 8:24 PM

I really enjoyed this article! I think there's a lot to be said about art being exactly in the struggle and generally failure to get your ideas and expression across in your chosen medium, and how capitalism, as it seeks to hide and alienate all labor does the same with art, where we truly think of these products as being done by the studios and not the people in them.

@SamKeeper2/1/2023, 10:46 PM

yeah and it feels like there's also a weird flip side where the work that the reader does in interpreting a text is also diminished to the point where a text sort of seems to emerge ex nihilo and then enter directly into the reader's brain with an obvious canonical meaning and interpretation.

Chimerelda E. Error, layabout @chimerror2/2/2023, 12:49 AM

Yeah! One of my goals on Quoll is to remind the player/reader of their whole part in the magic.

RECCANTI is taking commissions!@reccanti2/1/2023, 9:22 PM

This was really good! Lately, it’s felt like the aesthetics of progressive causes and criticism from the past decade have been increasingly co-opted by the powerful people, and the debates in Auteur Theory in particular feel like a microcosm of this.

@SamKeeper2/1/2023, 10:56 PM

I actually cut a bunch of stuff (for flow and tone reasons--it's hard to get onto these subjects without going on a whole acerbic tangent) about this kind of co-opting. like, reframing the bad cgi in She Hulk as "policing women's bodies" or whatever. I feel like post-gamergate it's so easy to gesture vaguely at a handful of reactionaries and suggest everyone critical of these franchises is just 4chan scum or Film Bros or whatever. it's very frustrating, and it's made it really hard to even talk about!

Kaylon @kaylon2/3/2023, 10:38 PM

Wait this is you?

THIS IS YOU!! HOLY SHIT THAT'S COOL!

I'M SO GLAD SOMEONE HAD THE BALLS TO MAKE THIS ARTICLE. I'M SO IMPRESSED AND AMAZED BY THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE ON HERE THAT CAN BOTH AGREE OUR SYSTEMS ARE SHIT AND MAKE GOOD POINTS!! I SWEAR TO GOD SOCIAL MEDIA JUST COLLECTIVISES STUPIDITY.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I'VE NOTICED THIS AND SO DESPERATELY WANTED AN ANSWER.

@SamKeeper2/4/2023, 1:58 AM

I'm so glad the analysis is ringing as true haha!

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