Editing Auteur Theory and the Director as Artist (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> ==
* '''Auteur Theory''' — The idea that the director is the primary author of a film, expressing a consistent personal vision across works.
* '''Cahiers du Cinema''' — The French journal (1951+) where Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol developed auteur theory.
* '''La Politique des Auteurs''' — Truffaut's 1954 essay arguing certain directors transcend their material through personal style.
* '''Andrew Sarris''' — The American critic who systematized auteur theory in ''The American Cinema'' (1968).
* '''Mise-en-Scene''' — Everything within the frame (set, lighting, actors) — the auteur's primary expressive tool.
* '''Visual Signature''' — Recurring stylistic choices identifying a director: Kubrick's one-point perspective, Ozu's tatami shots.
* '''The Pauline Kael Critique''' — The counter-argument (1963) that auteur theory ignores screenwriters and collaborative craft.
* '''Genre vs. Auteur''' — The tension between personal vision and commercial genre constraints.
* '''World Cinema Auteurs''' — Kurosawa, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Wong Kar-wai — directors whose national and personal voices are inseparable.
* '''The Showrunner as Auteur''' — How TV creators (Vince Gilligan, David Chase) extend auteur theory to serial storytelling.
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