What Astruc meant by ‘Auteur’ and examples of films from the movement

Alexandre Astruc, noted the significance of directors in filmmaking, finding that directors shared their own perspective through use of lighting, camerawork, staging, editing, and the story. Calling this concept “auteurism,” deriving largely from Astruc’s explanation of the concept of caméra-stylo (“camera-pen”), where the director, who oversees all audio and visual elements of the motion picture, is more to be considered the “author” of the movie than is the writer of the screenplay.

Le Beau Serge by Claude Chabrol, 1958
The 400 Blows by Francois Truffaut, 1959

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