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Formulated Year

Formulated year places a media concept in the year it was actually named. Wikipedia notes that "in 1962, American film critic Andrew Sarris popularized the concept in the United States, calling it the auteur theory," years after the idea itself first circulated among French critics. Browsing by formulated year traces how a media idea moved from a loose critical mood to a named theory.

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Era of Emergence
1920 1
Formulated Year
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1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Film theory, lead section
Quote, Wikipedia: Film theory, lead section
Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s.
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