| Front | auteur \O-tuhr\ |
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| Back | noun A filmmaker, such as a director, who has a distinct personal style and is involved in all aspects of movie-making, giving a film the unique imprint of the filmmaker. [From French auteur (originator or author), from Latin auctor (originator), from augere (to originate, to increase). Some other words derived from the same root are auction, author, and inaugurate, and augment.] "Ang Lee, a Taiwanese director who'd been working as a kind of auteur-for-hire, but he blew it off to 'go Hollywood'." |
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