Since the term 'auteur' was applied to film directors by the cahiers du movie theater journal in the 1950s, there has been much debate by film-makers and critics in regards to what makes an auteur and how accurate the word is when put on some directors. Federico Fellini, in a 1966 interview, said that Akira Kurosawa was 'the biggest living example of what an writer of cinema should be'(Cardullo, 2006, p. 49) and in this essay I would like to explore the exactness of this affirmation based on Kurosawa's period movies and how meaningful the term auteur is.
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