Auteur theory's main assumption is that the director is viewed as the major creative force in a motion picture. Arising in France in the late 1940s, the auteur theory- as it was dubbed by the American film critic Andrew Sarris- was an outgrowth of the cinematic theories of André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc.
-Before the theory was introduced, film was considered a work of art and the actors who made the sheets of scripts come to life like the 'Audrey Hepburn Film' 'Marx Brothers Film' or a Genre Specific flim like Sci-Fi, Thriller, and Horror Films etc.
Current opposition to the theory is within in the changes that have taken place in filmmaking since the early filmmaking years of the 1940s and 1950s. The objection says that filmmaking is such an intense effort in current times with so many gifted and exceptional specialists needed to oversee and perform every individual aspect of a film that it is no longer practicable to identify one single person as someone who imprints an identity upon a film and leaves such a strong mark that it amounts to a recognizable voice, signature, style or presence.
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