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Metteur en scène is a phrase that refers to the director of a film.

Cahiers du cinéma co-founder André Bazin coined the term, which is often referred to as 'the director of a film's mise en scène.' Metteur en scène also connotates that the director has an original aesthetic style that can be detected while watching his or her films. The expanded meaning of the term was introduced by the French New Wave filmmaker and film critic, Francois Truffaut, in an important essay,"A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema." Truffaut contrasted the inferior products of the metteur en scène with the work of the great director or auteur. The term was adopted and given a new meaning by the American film critic Andrew Sarris's writings on 'the auteur theory' in the early 1960s, in which metteur en scène is the second of the three categories that define a director as an auteur. Metteur en scène literally means "Scene-setter". Therefore, this term is meant to imply that an auteur's aesthetic style is repetitively detected in the scenography his/her films.

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 '''Metteur en scène''' is a phrase that refers to the [[film director|director]] of a film.
-''[[Cahiers du cinéma]]'' co-founder [[André Bazin]] coined the term, which is often referred to as 'the director of a film's [[mise en scène]].' '''Metteur en scène''' also connotates that the director has an original aesthetic style that can be detected while watching his or her films. The expanded meaning of the term was introduced by the French New Wave filmmaker and film critic, Francois Truffaut, in an important essay,"A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema."  Truffaut contrasted the inferior products of the [[metteur en scène]] with the work of the great director or [[auteur]].  The term was adopted and given a new meaning by the American film critic [[Andrew Sarris]]'s writings on [[auteur|'the auteur theory']] in the early 1960s, in which ''metteur en scène'' is the second of the three categories that define a director as an [[auteur]]. ''Metteur en scène'' literally means "Scene-setter". Therefore, this term is meant to imply that an auteur's aesthetic style is repetitively detected in the [[scenography]] his/her films.
+''[[Cahiers du cinéma]]'' co-founder [[André Bazin]] coined the term, which is often referred to as 'the director of a film's [[mise en scène]].' '''Metteur en scène''' also connotates that the director has an original aesthetic style that can be detected while watching his or her films. The expanded meaning of the term was introduced by the French New Wave filmmaker and film critic, Francois Truffaut, in an important essay,"A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema."  Truffaut contrasted the inferior products of the '''metteur en scène''' with the work of the great director or [[auteur]].  The term was adopted and given a new meaning by the American film critic [[Andrew Sarris]]'s writings on [[auteur|'the auteur theory']] in the early 1960s, in which ''metteur en scène'' is the second of the three categories that define a director as an [[auteur]]. ''Metteur en scène'' literally means "Scene-setter". Therefore, this term is meant to imply that an auteur's aesthetic style is repetitively detected in the [[scenography]] his/her films.
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