DQ 1) Explain why the auteurist theory has it become so important to film analysis? "Auteur" is the French term for writer, and therein is the meaning of auteur concept when applied to movie directing; it says that the director is definitely the creator of the movie, imprinting it with his individual vision

DQ 1) Explain why the auteurist theory has it become so important to film analysis? "Auteur" is the French term for writer, and therein is the meaning of auteur concept when applied to movie directing; it says that the director is definitely the creator of the movie, imprinting it with his individual vision. This can be a superb beginning point for assessing specific movies, both thematically as well as stylistically, and is in actual fact precisely how the auteur concept got started.