cinéma d'auteur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cinéma d’auteur.

Noun

cinéma d'auteur (usually uncountable, plural cinéma d'auteurs)

1. A cinematic style that emphasizes the director's personal vision, the making of film d'auteurs.; auteurism.
   • 1983, Peter Lev, Claude Lelouch, Film Director, page 127:

     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.

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

     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.

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

     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).

See also

• film d'auteur

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ne.ma d‿o.tœʁ/

Noun

cinéma d’auteur m (uncountable)

1. artistic filmmaking

   Coordinate term: cinéma commercial

Related terms

• film d’auteur