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The auteur theory is a theory of filmmaking in which the director is the main creative figure in a movie, he is often also the screenwriter of the film.

Features

In Introduzione alla storia del cinema (Introduction to the history of cinema), the Italian writer Paolo Bertetto identifies some common elements of the film auteur.

• He follows all the stages of film production, from the development of the idea to the editing, with particular attention to the screenplay;
• The auteurs films deal with complex and not very commercial contents, similar to a novel or a theatrical work;
• He must recognize himself as a style of the author, linked to his expressive originality;
• The auteurs films give less weight to pure entertainment, but they prefer to make the viewer reflect, so that he can no longer passively watch the projection;
• Often the auteurs films is included in a complex of works by the same author, for this recognizable.

See also

• Auteur
• List of film auteurs

External links

• Authors of Cinema: The Origins of Auteur Theory