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Billy Wilder, Auteur

The term ‘auteurism’, coined in the Cahiers du Cinéma in 1951, details the change of cinema from simple entertainment into an art form and a mode of self-expression. Literally translated to ‘author’, the auteur moves cinema away from just the ‘how to’ of filmmaking, the mise-en-scène, to creating deep and intertextual connections between each of […]