auteurism
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- auteurist noun
Example Sentences
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In Levine’s interpretation, auteurism has meant discarding months of work, much to his staff’s dismay.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2022
These constant huge events necessitated an editorial heavy-handedness that stifled the auteurism DC had made its signature.
From The Verge • Oct. 30, 2019
As an uneven but galvanizing cri de coeur from one of America’s most important filmmakers, it proves that audiences haven’t given up on auteurism at its most fiercely didactic and bracingly idiosyncratic.
From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2019
In the years after Sarris’s book hit, auteurism went in and out of fashion, drifting on theoretical currents.
From New York Times • May 17, 2018
McKee looks to the contemporary flowering of storytelling on television, where writers are in charge, instead of film, as evidence that auteurism is absurd.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2016
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