Auteur theory is the concept of a director being more like a classical artist than a producer, likening it as being closer to putting brush to easel than moving a camera.
Some Auteurs and their films of the time include:
Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, North by Northwest



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