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Auteur

Meaning in film & television, with examples

nounCommon term

In film & television, auteur means: A filmmaker whose personal style and creative concerns strongly shape a body of work.

In Turkish: özgün üsluplu yaratıcı yönetmen

How it is used

A critical term often applied to directors; it describes an interpretive view of authorship.

Example sentences

  1. Critics call her an auteur because her films return to the same family tensions.

    Recurring concerns help critics identify a personal signature.

  2. The festival organized an auteur retrospective across four decades of his work.

    The programme presents a career through its creative identity.

Common collocations

  • auteur cinema
  • auteur theory
  • genreA category of films or TV shows that share a style, subject or set of conventions, such as comedy, horror, western or science fiction.
  • plotThe series of connected events that make up the story of a film or series, and the order in which they are shown.

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