1FILM STUDIES
INTRODUCTION
An auteur is an artistic and creative person usually a film director who controls every
aspects of filmmaking. He or she uses his or her highly subjective power in order to control
many aspects of the film making process. The term auteur generally applies to all the director
and filmmaker with a distinguished style of filmmaking. (Doughty and Etherington-Wright,
2017) The term Auteurism originated in the era of French new wave during the year of late
1940s as a part of the French film criticism as mentioned in the Cahiers du cinéma, which is a
film critic journal. Film Auteur like Andre Bazin and Alexandre Astruc was a part of the
French New Wave and the new auteur theory, which was dubbed by the Andrew Sarris, an
American film critic. The Auteur theory can be defined as a way of looking at a films that
states that the director is the “author” of a film. According to the Auteur theory, a film is said
to be the reflection of the various artistic vision and idea of the film director. As a result, the
movie directed by those directors will have a specific recognizable and recurring theme and
visual clues that will help the audience to identify with the directors. There is a consistent
“artistic identity throughout that director’s filmography” (Stam , 2017).
Taking about the Auteur who would be analyzed in the following project and who had
a significant influence in the area of film making in recent times is the Director Manoj
Nelliyattu Shyamalan, who is also well known as M. Night Shyamalan. Two of his best films
that are being considered in the following paper are the “The Sixth Sense” and the
“Unbreakable”. Director Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan, who is also well known as M. Night
Shyamalan can be considered as "one of the ultimate auteurs" in the recent time.
Director Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan, who is also known as M. Night Shyamalan
who was born in the year 1970 in the month of August dated 6th, is an Indian American film
director, film maker and actor who is well known for directing and producing personal and

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