The directorial interpretation of a film; the construction of a film in such a manner that it conveys the particular perspective and imprint of a director (i.e. Hitchcock, Cronenberg, etc.)
(Film) 'Author'. The influence of a creative director over a film so that its style demarcates an auteur or shows the director's signature (the total author). Examples are Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Orson Welles, David Lynch. (See Hayward, 2000, 19-27.) (Radio) For radio drama, the primacy of the director as play 'author' emerges, often in adventurous and 'filmic' formalist techniques. This is in contrast to the sometimes submerged work of the radio drama director in standard radio drama production. (For standard, see below.) Auteur radio drama example: John Dryden's adaptation of Dickens' 'Bleak House'.
The presumed or actual "author" of a film, usually identified as the director. Also sometimes used in an evaluative sense to distinguish good filmmakers ( auteurs) from bad ones.
a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works
a director who writes his own screenplays
A filmmaker, usually a director, with a recognizable, strong personal style.
literally the director, who is regarded as the "author" of a film because he/she has primary control and responsibility for the final product. The Auteur theory insists that a film be considered in terms of the entire canon of a director and that each Auteur earns that title by displaying a unique cinematic style.
French for 'author'. The term has a specific cultural and political history, beginning with the politique des auteurs, a manifesto drafted in the 1950s by a group of French film directors and critics, which celebrated the role of the director as the 'author' of a film, particularly in what was then the 'Hollywood studio system'.
It is presumed that the director (author) is solely responsible over the artistic license of a film. So called great directors usually place their mark on a motion picture so that the viewer makes a connection with his or her aesthetic.