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auteur
(redirected from auteurist)

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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.]
auteur [ɔːˈtɜː]
n
(Performing Arts) a director whose creative influence on a film is so great as to be considered its author
[French: author]
auteurism  n
auteurist  adj
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Noun1.auteur - a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her worksauteur - 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
Translations
auteur [ɔːˈtɜːr] n (= film director) → grand(e) réalisateur/trice m/f
film d'auteur → film d'auteur
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Elsie Walker notes that critical preoccupation with auteurist readings of screened Shakespeare can preclude other discursive possibilities; in seeking to replace the authorial expressivity of Shakespeare with that of the auteur, the debate returns to tired issues of fidelity, the director credited as auteur serving as a cultural "stand-in for Shakespeare.
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Starting out as a contract director for Shochiku Studios--albeit one who quickly acquired auteurist credentials, as suggested by his brief appearances in some trailers for his first features--he went independent after the political and formal provocations of Night and Fog in Japan prompted the studio to suppress it a few days into its initial run.
The sun also sets by Rosenbaum, Jonathan / Artforum International
The best critics in Auteurs and Authorship have all three of Sarris's auteurist criteria in spades.
Auteurism: true or faux? by Kipen, David / Afterimage
 
 
 
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