cinéma d'auteur

plural cinéma d'auteurs

1. uncountableusuallyA cinematic style that emphasizes the director's personal vision, the making of film d'auteurs.; auteurism.

   The key theoretical notion behind the new French film circa 1960 was the "cinéma d'auteur," the idea that the director was or should be the author of a film.

   1983, Peter Lev, Claude Lelouch, Film Director, page 127

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   They reflect the stylistic and intellectual individualism of its representatives and seem, partially, to express a conscious cultural reorientation and self-confirmation vis-à-vis the West, which is the main financial backer of Arab cinéma d'auteur.

   1998, Viola Shafik, Arab Cinema: history and cultural identity, page 101

   Their predominant position in the cinéma d'auteurs allowed them to use different genres simultaneously by mixing thrilling action with both myth and supernatural adventure (Cocteau) or humanistic will with prolific creativity (Renoir).

   2004, Rémi Fournier Lanzoni, French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present, page 184