"The auteur theory, of which film criticAndrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against the"
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* Introduction Pantheon Directors * Charles Chaplin * Robert Flaherty * John Ford * D.W. Griffith * Howard Hawks * Alfred Hitchcock * Buster Keaton * Fritz Lang * Ernest Lubitsch * F.W. Murnau * Max Ophuls * Jean Renoir * Joseph von Sternberg * Orson Welles The Far Side of Paradise * Robert Aldrich * Frank Borzage * Frank Capra * George Cukor * Cecil B. De Mille * Blake Edwards * Gregory La Cava * Joseph Losey * Anthony Mann * Leo McCarey * Vincente Minelli * Otto Preminger * Nicholas Ray * Douglas Sirk * George Stevens * Erich Von Stroheim * Preston Sturges * King Vidor * Raoul Walsh Expressive Esoterica * Budd Boetticher * Andre De Toth * Stanley Donen * Clive Donner * Allan Dwan * Tay Garnett * Seth Holt * Phil Karlson * Joseph H. Lewis * Alexander Mackendrick * Robert Mulligan * Gerd Oswald * Arthur Penn * Lowell Sherman * Donald Siegel * Robert Siodmak * John M. Stahl * Frank Tashlin * Jacques Tourneur * Edgar G. Ulmer * Roland West Fringe Benefits * Michelangelo Antonioni * Luis Buuel * Claude Chabrol * Ren Clair * Ren Clment * Sergei Eisenstein * G.W. Pabst * Roman Polanski * Roberto Rossellini * Franois Truffaut * Luchino Visconti Less Than Meets the Eye * John Huston * Elia Kazan * David Lean * Rouben Mamoulian * Joseph L. Mankewicz * Lewis Milestone * Carol Reed * William Wellman * Billy Wilder * William Wyler * Fred Zinnemann Lightly Likable * Busby Berkeley * Henry Cornelius * John Cromwell * Michael Curtiz * Harry D'Arrast * Delmer Daves * Edmund Goulding * Byron Haskin * Henry Hathaway * Garson Kanin * Burt Kennedy * Alexander Korda * Zoltan Korda * Mitchell Leisen * Mervyn Le Roy * Franklin Schaffner * George Sidney * Andrew L. Stone * Charles Waters * James Whale Strained Seriousness * Richard Brooks * Jack Clayton * Jules Dessin * Richard Fleischer * Bryan Forbes * John Frankenheimer * Sidney J. Furie * Norman Jewison * Stanley Kubrick * Richard Lester * Albert Lewin * Sidney Lumet * Karel Reisz * Tony Richardson * Robert Rossen * John Schlesinger * John Sturges * Robert Wise Oddities, One-Shots, and Newcomers * Lindsay Anderson * George Axelrod * John Boorman * Marlon Brando * Peter Brook * John Cassavetes * James Clavell * Harold Clurman * Francis Ford Coppola * Roger Corman * Desmond Davis * Theodore J. Flicker * Bernard Girard * Robert Gist * Curtis Harrington * Harvey Hart * Ben Hecht and Charles Macarthur * Howard Hughes * Gene Kelly * Buzz Kulik * Charles Laughton * Irving Lerner * Ida Lupino * Robert Montgomery * Mike Nichols * Christian Nyby * Robert Parrish * Sam Peckinpah * Frank Perry * Abe Polansky * Stuart Rosenberg * Elliot Silverstein * Alexander Singer * Jack Smight * Peter Tweksbury * Peter Watkins * John Wayne * Jack Webb * Paul Wendkos * Cornell Wilde * Michael Winner * Bud Yorkin Subjects for Further Research * Clarence Brown * Tod Browning * James Cruze * Paul Fejos * Sidney Franklin * William K. Howard * Rex Ingram * Henry King * Malcolm St. Clair * Victor Seastrom * Maurice Tourneur Make Way for the Clowns! * W.C. Fields * Jerry Lewis * Harold Lloyd * The Marx Brothers * Mae West Miscellany * Michael Anderson * Laslo Benedek * John Brahm * Hubert Cornfield * William Dieterle * Roy Del Ruth * Gordon Douglas * Philip Dunne * Victor Fleming * Jack Garfein * Stuart Heisler * Stanley Kramer * Joshua Logan * David Miller * Jean Negulesco * Joseph M. Newman * Elliot Nugent * Arch Oboler * Richard Quine * Leslie Stevens * Edward Sutherland * Burt Topper * W.S. Van Dyke * Don Weis * Terance Young Afterword: The Auteur Theory Revisited * Directorial Chronology: 1915-1967
