auteurist
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- noun
- /oʊˈtɜrɪst/
- Many film critics identify certain directors as auteurists because of their unique storytelling styles.
Examples
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And this concern with differentiation skews the stylistic analyses that the auteurist is apt to render of individual films.
Academic text (1998) -
Thus, the auteurist searches for formal features that recur in the filmmaker's oeuvre; indeed, the auteurist looks especially for those recurring features that differentiate the pertinent filmmaker from other filmmakers.
Academic text (1998) -
But since this use of space does not recur in other films by Wilder, it is likely to be neglected by the auteurist.
Academic text (1998) -
The auteurist project, however, in terms of its "bottom line," remains tied to differentiating one filmmaker's oeuvre from those of others.
Academic text (1998) -
Thus, if we approach the style or form of the individual film as that which is expressive of its filmmaker's personality, as an auteurist does, then it might be thought that we will gain our best insight into the style of that film.
Academic text (1998) -
Indeed, auteurist trademarks can be said to be the sine qua non of competitions in the international festival circuit.
Academic text (2009) -
However, in order to pinpoint the style that is the director, the auteurist's unit of analysis must be the director's oeuvre, or some significant subsegment of it.
Academic text (1998) -
Since what the auteurist hopes to identify is the unique personality of the filmmaker, what the auteurist searches for are the recurring stylistic features or formal mannerisms that make possible the manifest expression of the filmmaker's distinctive mode of being in the world.
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This is not to say that auteurism need lack an explanatory dimension; the auteurist may explain how certain recurring elements in a work - for instance, the recurrence of vistas in John Ford's westerns - are expressive of his point of view about American history.
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An auteurist believes that a film director is the most important creative force behind a movie.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word auteurist comes from the French auteur, meaning 'author' (like the English author) and the ending -ist, which means 'person who supports an idea'. So an auteurist is someone who believes the director is the film's real 'author' and that the director shapes the whole movie.