An Auteur Analysis of Films Directed by Adrian Lyne
CREATING DISCUSSION: AN AUTEUR ANALYSIS OF FILMS DIRECTED BY ADRIAN LYNE Stephanie Oliver, B.A. Thesis Prepared for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS May 2017 APPROVED: Harry Benshoff, Major Professor George-Larke Walsh, Committee Member Jacqueline Vickery, Committee Member Eugene Martin, Chair of the Department of Media Arts David Holdeman, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Victor Prybutok, Vice Provost of the Toulouse Graduate School Oliver, Stephanie. Creating Discussion: An Auteur Analysis of Films Directed by Adrian Lyne. Master of Arts (Media Industry and Critical Studies), May 2017, 137 pp., 31 figures, bibliography, 88 titles. This thesis examines the various "signature" threads that are present within the "oeuvre" of the Hollywood filmmaker Adrian Lyne. The goal of this thesis is to showcase both how and why Lyne can be thought of as an auteur and to open up his films to new and previously unexplored meanings. Lyne's eight feature films are analyzed in-depth individually and in comparison to one another from a variety of theoretical frameworks and points of focus in each of the body chapters. Copyright 2017 by Stephanie Oliver ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis is the product of so many extraordinary forces. First, I will always fondly remember the COUNTLESS nights that I struggled to write it while watching Texas Rangers Baseball games, Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Dancing With The Stars (Val Chmerkovskiy videos on YouTube got me through some of the darkest times of my writing process). Second, this thesis would not have been possible without the COUNTLESS hours I spent talking about it (in person and on the phone) with my mother (first and foremost), father, uncle, chihuahuas, committee members, best friends, and fellow graduate students (you all know who you are).
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