The Concept of Authorial Stamp on the Cinema. Cases of Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood

Abstract

Throughout the history of cinema it has been discussed about the difference between film directors and authors of movies who direct films. Into the first group we would place such important names as Hitchcock, John Ford, John Huston, Martin Scorsese and George Lucas, among others. It is in this group where we also find two directors who have risen from nothing to the category of authors on its own merits. These are Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood. New Yorker and Californian have taken a career spanning from a tough start to be currently considered legends of cinema. His films are remembered and revised over the years, finding in them the imprint of their directors. For Clint Eastwood, we have been found his stylemes as well. Spielberg and Eastwood have several joint productions with their two companies, Amblin and Malpaso, and our hypothesis is to look at the modification of the stylemes of both and if there is an influence of any of them in the stylemes of the other.