Buckle in for a bumpy ride! This multi-part explores the basic tenets of film studies and film theory using Michael Bay's Transformers. Yes. That's right. You heard me: Michael Bay's Transformers.

Can Michael Bay be considered a "true auteur"? Well, to answer that question, first we gotta figure out what a "true auteur" even is.

Auteur theory flows into film language, because Michael Bay loves him some film language (often without much thought to what the film language is actually *saying*).

Genre is one of the building blocks of film language - but what genre does Transformers fall into anyway?

That's right. It's happening. Let's examine our most muscle-bound Autobots through the lens of feminist critical theory.

The term "male gaze" isn't *just* about how women are depicted on screen by male filmmakers (although it is... largely that) -- male gaze can be used to describe how men portray other men, too.

Megan Fox was framed, I tells ya.

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