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auteurism

auteurism noun: a theory that considers a work of cinema or television as the work of its director, rather than of the actors or producers.

Noun

auteurism (uncountable)

  1. A theory that considers a work of cinema or television as the work of its director, rather than of the actors or producers
    • Samantha Who?, a comedy beginning tonight on ABC, makes quite a good case against auteurism.2007 October 15, Ginia Bellafante, “Emerging From a Coma a Slightly Better Person”, in New York Times

Origin of auteurism

From auteur + -ism.

Questions about auteurism

What does auteurism mean?
Auteurism means a theory that considers a work of cinema or television as the work of its director, rather than of the actors or producers.
What part of speech is auteurism?
Auteurism is a noun.

Words near auteurism in the dictionary

  1. auteur
  2. auteur theory
  3. auteured
  4. auteurial
  5. auteuring
  6. auteurism
  7. auteurist
  8. auteuristic
  9. auteurists
  10. auteurs
  11. auteurship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: auteurism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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