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The Origins of Auteur Theory


Take the full Filmmaker IQ course on Auteur Theory with sauce and bonus material at: https://filmmakeriq.com/courses/origins-auteur-theory/ Auteur – it’s a favorite term of cinephiles around the world. But what exactly is Auteur Theory? In this Filmmaker IQ course we peel back pages of time and explore the origins of Auteur Theory from the economically tumultuous adolescence of French Cinema to the culture war waged in the columns of competing American movie critics. 

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