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auteur (ōtör`), in film criticism, a director who so dominates the film-making process that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur, or author, of the motion picture. The auteur theory holds that the director is the primary person responsible for the creation of a motion picture and imbues it with his or her distinctive, recognizable style. Propounded most notably by the French director and film critic François Truffaut Truffaut, François (fräNswä` trüfō`), 1932–84, French film director and critic. ..... Click the link for more information. and the American film critic Andrew Sarris, it has been attacked by others, including Pauline Kael Kael, Pauline (kāl), 1919–2001, American film critic, b. Petaluma, Calif. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In The Village Voice and elsewhere, Sarris dressed up his highly personal approach to criticism with theory, adapting French auteurism to defend his fondness for studio pictures previously derided as trash. If this were a different era, one wouldn't hesitate to call him an auteur given that the feature films he has made to date -- Live Bait (1995), Dirty (1998) and now Last Wedding -- fulfill Truffaut's original criteria for auteurism, chief among them being that film is a medium of personal expression for the director. THE EMERGENCE OF ED WOOD as ironic culture hero--a status cemented by Tim Burton's bemused Hollywood biopic--just about permanently blurred the line between auteurism and autism. |
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