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auteur


auteur [oh-tur; French oh-tœr] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun, plural au·teurs [oh-turz; French oh-tœr] /oʊˈtɜrz; French oʊˈtœr/. a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp. Liberaldictionary.com

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  • Origin of auteur 1960–65; French: literally, author, originator Latin auctor. See author Related formsau·teur·ism, nounau·teur·ist, adjective, noun Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for auteur Contemporary Examples of auteur

  • They seemed very much like auteur works—but the auteur works of a writer, not the auteur works of a director.

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    February 4, 2014

  • But apparently the studio is aware of a possibility that its auteur prefers to ignore.

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    January 9, 2014

  • Every film by Sofia Coppola, the Oscar-winning auteur behind Lost in Translation with the choice genes, is an event.

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  • (German auteur Tom Tykwer co-wrote and directed Cloud Atlas with the Wachowskis).

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    September 5, 2012

  • You can see an animated depiction of them debating the auteur theory.

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    November 2, 2011

  • British Dictionary definitions for auteur auteur noun a director whose creative influence on a film is so great as to be considered its author Derived Formsauteurism, nounauteurist, adjectiveWord Origin for auteur French: author Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for auteur n.

    1962, from French, literally “author” (see author (n.)).

    Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

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