auteurismn.

1968 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 28 Dec. 22/1 The rising popularity of foreign films..gave auteurism a mighty shot in the arm.

1983 N.Y. Times 15 May vii. 14/2 Sarris published the now classic ‘The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929–1968’ , in which he..championed the doctrine of auteurism.

1993 A. Goodwin Dancing in Distraction Factory 98 The ways in which a Romantic aesthetic underpins both the promotion and the reception of popular music, so that the discrete fictional diegesis of song narrative is perpetually overwhelmed by a kind of popular auteurism.

1998 Guardian 3 July (Friday Review section) 8/2 For the industry, the public and the professors that auteurism fed, it soon became an indispensable shorthand for identifying and classifying movies.