what exactly is the auteur theory in cinema?
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The idea that the director is the auteur/author, the main visionary behind the film.
It really only makes sense within the larger context of film criticism, especially its history. It came at a time when films were becoming industrialised, and studios exerted the most control over the process since they were providing the money and other resources.
The director was just their employee. This was known as the *studio system*.
So the auteur theory arose as a response to this – that the director wasn’t just there to implement the studio’s vision but that they were the driving creative force aka the author of the film.
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