Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences. Sometimes, a great deal of corn must be husked to yield a few kernels of internal meaning. In-text: (Gothic Fiction: Definition, Characteristics & Authors - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com, 2016). A true film auteur, as defined by Truffaut, is one who brings something genuinely personal to the subject of the film and is able to transform the original source material into a vessel of personal expression. Financed by the National Centre for Research and Development under grant No. Andre Bazins comments on la politique des auteurs are discussed; his article was probably the first to critique the auteurists system of values as developed by the French Critics. Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63). He says that three concentric circles can represent the three premises, of which the outer one represents technique, the middle one - individual style and the inner one - interior meaning. [online] Available at: