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auteur
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au·teur  (-tûr, -tr)
n.
A filmmaker, usually a director, who exercises creative control over his or her works and has a strong personal style.
[French, from Old French autor, author; see author.]
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Noun1.auteur - a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works
film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker - a producer of motion pictures
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IN THE AUTEURIST heyday of the early '60s, when you could still rush out to see the new John Ford or the new Raoul Walsh alongside the new Godard or the new Antonioni, the American-born, Scottish-bred director Alexander Mackendrick was a singularly elusive sort of auteur.
Great Scot: Geoffrey O'Brien on Alexander Mackendrick by O'Brien, Geoffrey / Artforum International
Once a student at New York University's highly regarded film school, she was educated in the finer auteurist points of Hawks appreciation.
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To appreciate Queen Latifah's video, the viewer must first redefine the idea of a "text," expanding it to include a multitude of nonverbal signs and freeing it from monologic and auteurist assumptions.
"Ladies first": Queen Latifah's Afrocentric feminist music video by Roberts, Robin / African American Review
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