Introduction to Theories of Authorship edited by John Caughie

This introduction begins with a quote from Alexandre Astruc from 1948. He speaks of a director expressing his thought onto the film. He calls this "Camera-stylo". The introduction states that while camera-stylo didn't take off its idea of associating film as artistic self expression became an important part of auteur theory. The main point that the introduction makes is that Auterism in itself was not proposed as a theory and more of a policy. Usually when someone is looked at as an auteur its an intentional effect. The director takes on a certain attitude as an auteur. While the film critics recognize film as art at its level between reality and fiction. It takes more to recognize the director as an artist. This is why we need auteur theory, to express that the direcot is indeed an author and an artist.