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- Dictionaryauteur/ɔːˈtəː/
noun
- 1. a film director who influences their films so much that they rank as their author.
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- Auteur
Leader of a collaborative work equivalent to the author of a book
An auteur is an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose filmmaking control is so unbounded and personal that the director is likened to the "author" of the film, thus manifesting the director's unique style or thematic focus. As an unnamed value, auteurism originated in French film criticism of the late 1940s, and derives from the critical approach of André Bazin and Alex... Wikipedia
