Word: auteurist
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...single masterpiece, the Cahiers critics traced continual directorial themes and motifs, evaluating the creator's relationship to his subject by the manner in which it was visually portrayed. Serious film criticism in the U. S. has gradually assimilated the most basic French ideas. In terms of the auteurist's gradual relinquishing of rationality, however, America's only auteur critic prior to Sarris was Manny Farber, who specialized in glorifying Raoul Walsh's James Cagney and Errol Flynn epics for readers of the Nation or Commentary...