The critical position that the director is the author of a film, whose personality can be read across a body of work even inside the studio system. Argued in Cahiers du Cinema in the 1950s, above all by Francois Truffaut's 1954 essay, and named the auteur theory in English by Andrew Sarris in 1962, it reshaped criticism, canons and the self-image of directors.
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Concept Domain Formulated YearTruffaut's essay A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema, 1954; Sarris coined the English phrase in 1962. Domain
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Truffaut's 1954 Cahiers du cinema essay is the usual origin of the idea; Andrew Sarris later gave it its English name
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.- Domain (category): Film
- Concept Domain: Film Theory
- Formulated Year: 1954
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To represent the view that directors who put their personality into their work make better films, Truffaut coined the phrase "la politique des auteurs", or "the policy of the authors" in 1955.
Associated With: Francois Truffaut, Lead paragraph 2
derived from the writings of André Bazin, Alexandre Astruc and François Truffaut
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