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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

작가주의 감독

Native Script:한국어 한글

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jakgajuui gamdok

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Auteur/ˈoʊ.tɜːr/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 현대 영화계에서 손꼽히는 작가주의 감독이다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A film director whose practice is marked by a distinctive, recognizable personal style, artistic vision, and thematic consistency across their body of work.

    "The retrospective highlighted his status as a true auteur of modern science fiction cinema."
  2. 2

    An artist, creator, or writer who exerts a primary controlling influence over their creative output.

    "As an indie game developer and sole designer, she functioned as an absolute auteur."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Borrowed directly from French, where 'auteur' simply means 'author', deriving from the Latin 'auctor'. The term was popularized in film criticism by the French New Wave critics of Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s, specifically referencing film directors whose unique artistic vision and personal style permeate their bodies of work.

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