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Hitchcockian: Film's Auteurist Adjectives
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You know a director has a distinct style when an adjective is created to represent that style. Here is a list of those adjectives and what they mean.
| | BERGMANESQUE (Ingmar Bergman) - a bleak psychological chronicle of people living in a world that God has abandoned |
| | FELLINESQUE (Federico Fellini) - operatic and surrealistic fantasies, or the mixture of brio and disgusted view of society plus busty blondes and catholic references |
| | HITCHCOCKIAN (Alfred Hitchcock) - smart psychological thriller |
| | WELLESIAN (Orson Welles) - strong visual style |
| | ALTMANESQUE (Robert Altman) - rambling, character driven |
| | GODARDESQUE (Jean-Luc Godard) - nervous tics and mannerisms that produce intriguing collages but never a totally complete vision |
| | ANTONIONIESQUE (Michelangelo Antonioni) - the world as a chessboard, full of malignant surfaces and doomed figures |
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